Google workspace delegate email access
A very specific and technical question!
To grant email access to a delegate in Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), you'll need to follow these steps:
Prerequisites:
- You have a Google Workspace account (formerly G Suite) with email enabled.
- You have a user account with administrative privileges (e.g., Super Admin, Domain Admin, or Group Admin).
Step 1: Create a delegate
- Go to the Google Admin console: https://admin.google.com
- Sign in with your administrative credentials.
- Click on "Users" in the navigation menu.
- Click on the "Add user" button.
- Enter the delegate's email address and other required information.
- Click "Add" to create the delegate user.
Step 2: Grant email access to the delegate
- Go to the Google Admin console: https://admin.google.com
- Sign in with your administrative credentials.
- Click on "Users" in the navigation menu.
- Click on the delegate user's email address.
- Click on the "Access and security" tab.
- Scroll down to the "Email" section.
- Click on the "Grant access" button next to "Email".
- Select the email account you want to grant access to (e.g., your own email account).
- Choose the level of access you want to grant:
- "Read-only" access allows the delegate to view emails, but not send or reply.
- "Read-write" access allows the delegate to view, send, and reply to emails.
- Click "Save" to save the changes.
Step 3: Configure email forwarding (optional)
If you want to forward emails from the delegate's email account to your own email account, you can set up email forwarding:
- Go to the Google Admin console: https://admin.google.com
- Sign in with your administrative credentials.
- Click on "Users" in the navigation menu.
- Click on the delegate user's email address.
- Click on the "Access and security" tab.
- Scroll down to the "Email" section.
- Click on the "Forwarding" button.
- Select the email account you want to forward emails to (e.g., your own email account).
- Choose the forwarding option:
- "Forward all emails" will forward all emails from the delegate's email account to your email account.
- "Forward emails from specific senders" allows you to specify specific senders whose emails will be forwarded to your email account.
- Click "Save" to save the changes.
That's it! The delegate should now have email access to the specified email account, and you can configure email forwarding as needed.