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
