# Grant Proxy | SmartMail Documents

> To automatically open a person's mailboxes to a teammate for the specified dates during leave or absence.

Source page: https://dblinx.net/en/smartmail/belgeler/yonetici/vekalet

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# 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

In SmartMail Management, open the **Delegation** section.

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

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

- 1On whose behalf

- 2Starts the proxy

- 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.

**Tip**Delete and quarantine permissions are not delegated. The person themselves also [holiday mode](/en/smartmail/belgeler/kullanici/tatil-modu) can send automatic replies externally by opening it.

## Related pages

- [Automatic assignment rules](/en/smartmail/belgeler/yonetici/otomatik-atama)