From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: 10 Feb 2007 11:00:02 -0600 Organization: Newscene Usenet News Service, http://www.newscene.com/ Message-ID: References: <1171042016.496262.136420@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171129241 13916 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 17:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:40:41 +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 10 18:40:33 2007 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 1HFwDA-0003Ad-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFwD9-0008Fi-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-Sender: galen_boyer@yahoo.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145463 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:41067 Archived-At: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, eliz@gnu.org wrote: >> From: "Robert Thorpe" >> Date: 9 Feb 2007 09:26:56 -0800 >> >> If I didn't interact with so many people who use Outlook I'd probably >> use it for email. > > What prevents you from using Emacs for email, even though your > correspondents use Outlook? In other words, what's so special with > Outlook that Emacs cannot cope with? Not whom you responded to, but for me, to configure Outlook I needed to know the server and security configurations as well as if it supported pop or IMAP and all of those questions were things that got the email admins suspicious of my activities and brought questions from my bosses and so I would shy away from it. They did not want to hear that I was using a different client than everybody else. The other reason is that the most important thing about Outlook is the calendar and I had no idea how to get Gnus to deal with that. -- Galen Boyer