On 06/17/2010 12:31 PM, Chris Hobbs wrote:

I've mostly got our dovecot+postfix+SOGo+openldap open source groupware replacement working the way I want it to; we're replacing GroupWise in our organization and I'm thrilled to be doing it. I'm supporting about 1,000 active staff users (and another 6,000 student accounts).

I've got e-mail and calendar sharing working, and it does what it says it will do, but it is (go figure) different in concept from Proxy access under GroupWise. In GroupWise, I can give my secretary proxy access to my account and she can read all of my folders, see my calendars, and send e-mail as me. To someone that receives an e-mail or appointment request from her while she's proxied to me, there's no distinction at all.

Is there a way to mimic this sort of functionality with the tools I've chosen? I've figured out that I can add additional 'mail' attributes to the secretary's record, and those addresses are available as drop-down choices in the SOGo web interface, but with the secretary's name and not the manager.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

And many thanks to the developers involved for writing and making available such amazingly good software. Eliminating the license fees we've been paying to Novell is allowing me to save a technician that surely would have been eliminated in budget cuts this year.

Have two passwords, a secretary one and your real one. When you want to give your secretary access, change it to the secretary password. To revoke, change back.

(I know nothing about SOGo, so this is my brute force suggestion should no one provide a more intelligent one.)

On 17/06/2010 17:31, Chris Hobbs wrote:

I've mostly got our dovecot+postfix+SOGo+openldap open source groupware replacement working the way I want it to; we're replacing GroupWise in our organization and I'm thrilled to be doing it. I'm supporting about 1,000 active staff users (and another 6,000 student accounts).

I've got e-mail and calendar sharing working, and it does what it says it will do, but it is (go figure) different in concept from Proxy access under GroupWise. In GroupWise, I can give my secretary proxy access to my account and she can read all of my folders, see my calendars, and send e-mail as me. To someone that receives an e-mail or appointment request from her while she's proxied to me, there's no distinction at all.

Is there a way to mimic this sort of functionality with the tools I've chosen? I've figured out that I can add additional 'mail' attributes to the secretary's record, and those addresses are available as drop-down choices in the SOGo web interface, but with the secretary's name and not the manager.

I think your question is being misunderstood. To clarify is your point that:

• You *can* give her access to your calendar and email
• She can read and respond to your emails
• BUT all the responses and calendar entries are booked as though *she* made them, not as though *you* made them?

I think the last point is your question?

If so then I think this will become a client configuration question.
Generally the "sent" user on any email or calendar entry is a function of whatever the client program wants it to be, and so for example you probably need to look at the configuration of Thunderbird or the webinterface or whatever client it is that you use to edit entries?

Further (assuming I'm answering the right question!) this seems more like a Thunderbird / Sogo question and you might get a better answer on that list than here. Dovecot is really quite a low level piece of the puzzle and only related to *inbound* email and has nothing to do with the calendaring or outbound email

However, that said I'm looking at Sogo and it does look like a fantastic groupware overlay on top of the best of breed mail components. Do please take the time to post any interesting snippets that you learned along the way?

Good luck

Ed W