How to give access to your Email (Gsuite) account to another person

If you want to grant another person from the University permission to read, send, and delete email messages on your behalf, you can give access to your GSuite email account by adding them as a delegate. This configuration will be done directly from the Gmail website.

Add a delegate:

  1. Open Gmail on your computer.
  2. At the top right, click on Settings.
  3. Click on the Accounts and Import or Accounts tab.
  4. In the “Grant access to your account” section, click on Add another account.
  5. Enter the email address of the person you want to add.
  6. The person you added will receive an email to confirm the delegation. Once they have done so, they will appear in your account as a delegate within a maximum of 24 hours.

 

Warning

Delegates can do things like:

Delegates cannot do things like:

    • Chat with another person pretending to be you.
    • Change your Gmail password.

 

Related URL

Set up email delegation – Gmail Help