accessing "Other Users" mailboxes via SWA

[Jens]

I am not sure what would be the best way to access other user mailboxes in SWA.
Let say there is User A and user B wants to have Access to his mailbox or only a directory of the User-A-mailbox; what both users have to do to allow this?

Presupposed User A is accepting this, what is the way to allow User A to give a group (e.g. sales) or a single user the rights to read the whole mail box (including all subdirectories). It should not be necessary to set these rights for each single directory (which means there should be something like inheritance).

Other mail systems have the ability to create ‘links’ to other mailboxes or their directories, so it is not necessary to copy mails (e.g. into shared directories).
The other user’s mailbox/directories should be visible without any big problems esp. in Scalix Web Access!! (Outlook shouldn’t be a problem)
Ho I can organize this?

If this is not possible, how I can organize something like a backup of this defined user directories to a shared directory or synchronizes with a shared directory?
This means if the User A moved a message into a special directory (drag and drop or special rules) the same message should be visible in a shared directory/subdirectory with the same name.

And a last question: As far as I see delegation is only available with Outlook, is this right?

[jlecomte]

Jens,

Access to another user's mailbox is not possible in SWA at this time. We are actively working on it though and it will definitely be available in the next major version of Scalix Web Access coming later this year.

Cheers,

Julien

[Jens]

O.k. I can understand (what a pity).
Only short: Can you tell me the typical (I know it can be different every time) time space between major releases from a historical perspective?

And what about any replication mechanism?

Best regards and thanks
Jens

[florian]

;-) Well, i don't think that so easy. Honest answer is - it's going to be released when we're done with it. Engineering. Testing. More Testing. Limited release to selected customers. More Testing. Bugfixing and Testing again. ;-) The whole story.

We're currently targetting a Q3/2006 timeframe for the next major release including SWA delegate access, but plase don't quote me on that.

We currently have no plans to add data synchronization to the system. There are, however ,a number of IMAP-based sync tools out in the open source space that might do what you want.

Cheers,
Florian.