Delegation

[Eleni Postantzi]

Hello Bernhard,


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
> Eleni,
>
>
>  On Tuesday 29 April 2008 14:21, Eleni Postantzi wrote:
>  > With Exchange, the administrator can either grant the "send as"
>  > permission to a user or the "send on behalf of" permission.
>  >
>  > With Kolab and Outlook, when sending an e-mail using the delegation
>  > feature, the recipient will receive the e-mail tagged as :
>  > mail sent from assistant at mydomain.com in behalf of chief at mydomain.com
>  >
>  > "Send as" feature is a very important one as it lets an assistant send
>  > en e-mail as if he were the chief without showing to the recipient
>  > that it's not the chief replying but him.
>  >
>  > I found out that with Thunderbird and Kontakt, it is possible to use
>  > the "send as" feature if creating a new identity. However, using this
>  > with Outlook is not possible due to several reasons (administration,
>  > usage, support).
>
>  in principle you can also use a different identity with Outlook
>  and Kolab Server. Just the switch between the identities will not
>  be as smooth as with KDE Kontact.
>
>
>  > Is there a way to use the "send as" feature instead of "send on behalf
>  > of" ? Or probably develop it?
>
>  As proprietary software, Outlook is a blackbox towards external developers.
>  Thus for Outlook functionality we are limited to what the vendor implements
>  (or provides API hooks for). Maybe there are workaround in one of the other
>  use case. (Like marking the send email somehow and rewriting this on the
>  server. This is quite a dirty solution, though.)
>
>  Bernhard
>
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so if i can understand well enough, the implementation of this
"feature" has nothing to do with kolab itself but more with the way
outlook connectors are developed.


Thanks,

--
eleni