Grant Proxy

Delegation opens a person's mailboxes to a teammate between the dates you select while that person is away. Access is granted automatically at the start, and at the end only the access granted through delegation is revoked.

  • Organization administrator

How to grant Proxy?

Proxy opens the mailboxes of a person to a teammate during the dates you select when the person is unavailable. Who can do this: Organization administrator. At the start, the proxy sees the person's mailboxes with the same permissions and receives a notification; the proxy is listed as Active 3. Access is granted automatically at the start, and access granted by proxy is revoked at the end.

Steps

  1. In SmartMail Management, open the Delegation section.

  2. Select the Person being covered 1 and the Delegate, and enter the start and end dates (maximum 180 days).

  3. If you want, enter a reason and click Delegate 2.

Proxy: person to cover, proxy, date range; active, pending, and expired proxies
  1. 1On whose behalf
  2. 2Starts the proxy
  3. 3Currently active
Proxy section with demo data.
Result At the start time, the delegate sees the person's mailboxes with the same permissions as them and receives a notification; the delegation is listed as Active 3. At the end time, or when you click Cancel, only the access opened by the delegation is removed; any access the delegate already had is left unchanged.
TipDelete and quarantine permissions are not delegated. The person themselves also holiday mode can send automatic replies externally by opening it.

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