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Gmail adds support for delegating access to accounts

58 points by asb 16y ago

kondro 16y ago
This will be incredibly useful for all those 4-hour workweek fanatics.
terinjokes 16y ago
But they still add the "on behalf of" line. I understand that this is technically correct, but for some of us, it's unwanted behavior...
riobard 16y ago
Do the delegated mails also appear in IMAP?
krosaen 16y ago
cool, this has been available to google apps premier accounts for a while, I wonder if this means they'll make it free for the basic google apps accounts too (the only place where this would be of use to me).
- indy 16y ago
  It's been enabled on my basic google apps account for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, recipients see "sent by foo@example.com on behalf of bar@example.com" which doesn't look too professional when dealing with customers.
  - vsync 16y ago
    How is it at all different than the old AB/cd you used to see at the end of letters typed by the secretary?
babyshake 16y ago
Would it be possible to delegate to an account ran by a web service that would then have access to your email? For instance, to do things like auto-responses, auto-filtering, etc.
- gregschlom 16y ago
  You have OAUTH tokens for that. Many gmail-related webservices are using them. (Like etacts, for example)
portman 16y ago
It doesn't work for me. I successfully authorized and accepted, but do not see the new drop-down arrow. I've uninstalled all Chrome extensions (I had a few that interacted with GMail) and still no way to switch accounts. Hari Nidumolu, if you're by chance reading this: anything I can look for in Firebug/ChromeInspect to try to debug?
- ericlevine 16y ago
  Do you have offline Gmail enabled? I think that has some weird side-effects. Also, you might try enabling multilogin if you haven't already.
- kumarshantanu 16y ago
  It needs around 30 minutes to be activated. It is working for me.
- fab13n 16y ago
  Same for me, let's wait and see, it might take a while to activate itself.
zmonkeyz 16y ago
Another one of those ideas that you never think of but say "duh" when it's introduced.

58 points by asb 16y ago

This will be incredibly useful for all those 4-hour workweek fanatics.

But they still add the "on behalf of" line. I understand that this is technically correct, but for some of us, it's unwanted behavior...

riobard 16y ago

Do the delegated mails also appear in IMAP?

krosaen 16y ago

cool, this has been available to google apps premier accounts for a while, I wonder if this means they'll make it free for the basic google apps accounts too (the only place where this would be of use to me).

indy 16y ago
It's been enabled on my basic google apps account for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, recipients see "sent by foo@example.com on behalf of bar@example.com" which doesn't look too professional when dealing with customers.
- vsync 16y ago
  How is it at all different than the old AB/cd you used to see at the end of letters typed by the secretary?

babyshake 16y ago

Would it be possible to delegate to an account ran by a web service that would then have access to your email? For instance, to do things like auto-responses, auto-filtering, etc.

gregschlom 16y ago
You have OAUTH tokens for that. Many gmail-related webservices are using them. (Like etacts, for example)

portman 16y ago

It doesn't work for me. I successfully authorized and accepted, but do not see the new drop-down arrow. I've uninstalled all Chrome extensions (I had a few that interacted with GMail) and still no way to switch accounts. Hari Nidumolu, if you're by chance reading this: anything I can look for in Firebug/ChromeInspect to try to debug?

ericlevine 16y ago
Do you have offline Gmail enabled? I think that has some weird side-effects. Also, you might try enabling multilogin if you haven't already.
kumarshantanu 16y ago
It needs around 30 minutes to be activated. It is working for me.
fab13n 16y ago
Same for me, let's wait and see, it might take a while to activate itself.

zmonkeyz 16y ago

Another one of those ideas that you never think of but say "duh" when it's introduced.