Outlook composition support?

Outlook composition support?

[Skip Montanaro]

I really hate Outlook, but unfortunately, it's what I have to use to
send and receive mail at work. Is there any way to hook Emacs in as a
message composition editor?

Thanks,

Skip Montanaro

Re: Outlook composition support?

[HASM]

> I really hate Outlook, but unfortunately, it's what I have to use to
> send and receive mail at work. Is there any way to hook Emacs in as a
> message composition editor?

Use davmail (MTA) to get your email out of Exchange, then use another
email program (MUA) that can use emacs as an editor.

Not sure how to do all of that in a strict windows environment, but
that's what I do using a linux desktop at work (from where I remote into
my outlook-free windows laptop to do windows stuff).

-- HASM

Re: Outlook composition support?

[tomas]

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On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 12:06:29PM -0800, HASM wrote:
> 
> > I really hate Outlook, but unfortunately, it's what I have to use to
> > send and receive mail at work. Is there any way to hook Emacs in as a
> > message composition editor?
> 
> Use davmail (MTA) to get your email out of Exchange, then use another
> email program (MUA) that can use emacs as an editor.

When excange has IMAP enabled, I've used fetchmail to good results.

Cheers
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Re: Outlook composition support?

[HASM]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

>> Use davmail (MTA) to get your email out of Exchange, then use another
>> email program (MUA) that can use emacs as an editor.

> When excanghe has IMAP enabled, I've used fetchmail to good results.

Most companies disable that, not sure why.  At my company it used to be
opened, but it was closed after some update, and there's no convincing
them to open it up.

-- HASM

Re: Outlook composition support?

[Robert Pluim]

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

> I really hate Outlook, but unfortunately, it's what I have to use to
> send and receive mail at work. Is there any way to hook Emacs in as a
> message composition editor?
>

You means something like this? https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MessageOutlook

(I suspect this will result in plaintext email, which might well
confuse your readers ;-) )

Robert

Re: Outlook composition support?

[Skip Montanaro]

Thanks for all the suggestions/pointers. As for Robert's comment:

> I suspect this will result in plaintext email, which might well confuse your readers ;-)

no worries there. I forcibly set Outlook to send plaintext mail by
default and only change it when I have to insert some bit of non-text
content. I've been confusing my readers for months. :-)

Skip


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I really hate Outlook, but unfortunately, it's what I have to use to
>> send and receive mail at work. Is there any way to hook Emacs in as a
>> message composition editor?
>>
>
> You means something like this? https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MessageOutlook
>
> (I suspect this will result in plaintext email, which might well
> confuse your readers ;-) )
>
> Robert