[Dovecot] Proxy Access (Manager/Secretary) Best Practices?

[Ed W]

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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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