Trying to "share" a Gmail account with my assistant. Help!

I’m not a techie so this may not be helpful but couldn’t s/he just BCC you every time?

Here’s an idea:

Create your main address (jondoe@yourcompany.com) as a list instead of an individual user (the UI for this is a little hidden in Apps), then make both you and your assistant members of the list. Access will work, and reply-to shouldn’t be a problem, and, I believe, the threading will work properly because you won’t be forwarding.

Also, this is really how Google designed shared addresses to work (even if it’s hidden), so I think it’s more likely to work as desired.

Gmail Groups may work for you.
—You create a group, which has its own email address
—You forward your email to the group
—You and the assistant read and respond to email via the group screen
I haven’t used Groups, this is just a guess from the little I have read, but I hope it works for you.

Ahh, ben already had the same idea.
I forgot to add this link
Google Help › Google Apps Help › Users and groups › Groups › Groups

This can be done except im not so sure about number 3 and you don’t need to share a Gmail account.

To send all messages that come for you use Filters and create one that forwards all messages for you to your assistant’s e-mail.

To make your assistant reply in your name go to.. (on your assistants account)

- Accounts and Import and scroll down to ”Send mail as:”

- Click on Send Mail from Another Address

- In the windows that will pop up type in your e-mail.

- It will send you a verification e-mail. Verify it.

- Once it has been verified, I recommend checking ”Send through gmail.com SMTP servers (recommended for professional domains)” This will make others see your assistants e-mail as your name. (Not checking this can sometimes cause e-mails to show ”[assistants e-mail] On behalf of [your e-mail]” in the From field. I don’t think you want that.

- After everything has been verified your assistant will have the option to send mail in your name or her own. There will be a drop down menu in ”From” when she/he is composing a message.

I hope I helped, any other questions just ask.

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Thanks for all the effort put into answering this question. I am very grateful.

The one challenge with all of these proposed suggestions, is that my assistant’s replies to messages don’t actually get reflected in the original thread. Thus, I can’t tell if I am duplicating her work.

It sounds old school, but I think the only real way to solve this is to have her use a client to IMAP into my mail.