From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202545262 21996 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2008 08:21:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:21:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 09:21:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JNkxg-0005hT-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:21:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNkxC-0002jv-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNkwl-0002jm-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNkwj-0002jY-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNkwi-0002jV-Uf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNkwi-0006qk-En for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNkwh-0003cu-J9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-218-44.inter.net.il [83.130.218.44]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id KDZ94916 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:20:02 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Corey Foote on Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:43:43 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51361 Archived-At: > From: Corey Foote > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:43:43 -0500 > > I'm interested in switching from Microsoft Outlook to an Emacs based email client. I'd be willing to learn Gnus or any other Emacs extension which would make this possible. Are there any resources available for people making this transition? The Emacs manual is your main friend. If you decide to go with Gnus (as opposed to Rmail, which is described in the Emacs manual), you will need to read the Gnus manual as well. The Gnus manual is part of the Emacs distribution. > My main concern is that Outlook makes it possible to schedule meetings by email. You can create a meeting request and add participants. Each of these participants will then have a meeting added to their calendar within Outlook once they accept the meeting request. This is how I keep my life organized, and I'd be looking for something in Emacs which could duplicate this functionally or at least provided a good alternative. > > Ideally I'd like my Emacs based Email client to be able to work with these Outlook meeting requests. That way it would be seamless, and none of my coworkers would have to know I had secretly abandoned Outlook. :-) The Emacs manual describes the `icalendar' package in the node "Importing Diary". It sounds like what you want is supported by that package; please take a look.