topic Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group in Peer-Peer Topics

Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

Bill_Gibson — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:30:06 GMT

Has anyone had success delegating a mailbox to a group?

I thought it was possible based on this.

...but attempting to
gam user sharethis@domain.com delegate to grouphere@domain.com
results in
Add Failed: Invalid delegate

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

alexgrutza — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:32:32 GMT

does the group have more than these limits https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/reference/rest/v1/users.settings.delegates/create

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

Bill_Gibson — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:35:56 GMT

There are currently 7 delegates on the mailbox and the group has 10 members (many of whom are the existing delegates).

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

NielsBrockmeier — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:33:22 GMT

Did you allow delegations to groups in the domain? The default is off for this setting.

Under > https://admin.google.com/ac/apps/gmail/usersettings > Allow users to grant their mailbox access to a Google group

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

alexgrutza — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:15:43 GMT

Fascinating these new little feature additions without Google sending this feature update out, as far as I'm aware.

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

Bill_Gibson — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:29:10 GMT

Well THAT'S a fun setting! 🙌

Still the same error, but I'll give it some time to apply and try again later.

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

NielsBrockmeier — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:31:45 GMT

Yea it takes a while to get working. Found one domain that I manage that didn't have it on, took just over 8 hours to get it enabled. It can take up to 24 hours however, from what I read online this can be the case.

Re: Delegate GMail Mailbox to Group

Bill_Gibson — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:25:07 GMT

Indeed, worked as expected this morning.
Thanks for your help @NielsBrockmeier !