# Sending or Receiving Emails as Deputy

Learn how to act as another user’s deputy. Depending on the permissions granted by this user, you can do the following:

- read emails in the user’s inbox
- edit, manage or delete emails in the user’s inbox
- send emails on behalf of the user

##### How to send emails as deputy:

<div class="task" id="bkmrk-use-one-of-the-follo"><div class="procedure">1. Use one of the following methods:
    
    
    - Click on <span class="guibutton">**Compose**</span> in the toolbar.
        
        Click on the sender address next to <span class="guibutton">**From:**</span> in the email editing window. Select the sender on whose behalf you want to send the email.
    - In the folder tree under <span class="guibutton">**Shared folders**</span>, open the inbox of the user who appointed you as deputy.
        
        Click on <span class="guibutton">**Compose**</span> in the toolbar.
    
    Next to <span class="guibutton">**On behalf of**</span>, the sender on whose behalf you want to send the email will be pre-entered.
2. Complete the steps for composing and sending the email.

</div></div>Depending on the configuration, the email text will include a note informing the recipients that the email has been sent by a deputy.

The recipient will see the following senders in the display area:

<div class="task" id="bkmrk-the-sender-on-whose-"><div class="taskrelated">- The sender on whose behalf you sent the email.
- The deputy who sent the email.

</div></div><p class="callout info">If the recipient replies to the email, the reply will be sent to the sender and the deputy.</p>

##### How to read, edit or organize emails as deputy:

<div class="task" id="bkmrk-in-the-folder-tree-u"><div class="procedure">1. In the folder tree under <span class="guibutton">**Shared folders**</span>, open the inbox of the user who appointed you as deputy.
2. Depending on the permissions that have been granted to you, you can do the following:
    
    
    - As viewer, you can read all emails. You can mark a single email as read, assign a color to the email or print the email.
    - As editor, you can also mark all emails in the inbox as read.
    - As author, you can also create subfolders, move a single email or move all emails in the inbox.

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