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Re: [ietf-822] WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to... (off-topic)

2014-05-05 15:53:40
S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Miles,
> At 04:51 04-05-2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> No. If I have a secretary make 20 copies of a letter, and drop it off
>> at the post office, I'm still the author of the message.  A
>> secretary, forwarder, mailing list, what have you, is acting on my
>> behalf, as my agent.  The letter is from me, and the return address
>> should be mine.
>
> Which MUA would you recommend for the secretary to send a message on
> behalf of an author?
>

Well, I was using physical mail handling as an analogy, but... Outlook
supports delegated access rights for sending on behalf of, as well as
scheduling meetings on behalf of another mail user. Would a recommend
Outlook - that's a separate question :-)

I haven't set it up myself, but I believe our web client product supports it as
well.

And judging from how often we've been asked to implement various schemes to
authenticate various send on behalf of as part of SUBMIT, there are other
clients out there that support it.

                                Ned

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