Re: configure-more.zip

["Kevin Gallagher" <kevin.gal@verizon.net>]

A very large number of companies, today, have tied themselves into using 
Microsoft Outlook coupled with a Microsoft Exchange Server.  Outlook has 
many integrated features, including personal calendars, group calendars, 
sending and processing meeting invitations, applying digital signatures, 
applying message encryption/decryption via a company assigned personal key 
assigned to each employee, etc.  For example, when a meeting invititation 
arrives in the inbox, an entry is placed into the user's calendar with 
markings to indicate an invitation has been issued but no response has been 
given.  When I visit the message in my inbox, it displays buttons for me to 
accept, to tentatively accept, or to decline the invitation.  If I decline 
the invitation, the meeting is automatically removed from my schedule.

As far as I know, Emacs has no support for many of these sophisticated 
features of Outlook.  Unless there is a new Emacs mail package with support 
for Outlook's many features, allowing it to replace Outlook on their PC 
desktop, many engineers are stuck using Outlook to read and to send email 
while they are at work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Kevin Gallagher" <kevin.gal@verizon.net>
Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: configure-more.zip


>> Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:22:51 -0500
>> From: "Kevin Gallagher" <kevin.gal@verizon.net>
>> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
>> > (Btw, I'm amazed to see that you use something other than Emacs for
>> > sending mail.)
>>
>> Ah, I'm not!  It has become a common problem.  Many corporations and
>> universities, today, only support email on MS Windows networked boxes, to
>> which all employees/students have access.  Unix/GNU Linux networks, on 
>> the
>> other hand, are typically used only for product development by those
>> engineers doing the actual work.  Not infrequently, these are isolated
>> networks with no Internet access.
>
> Emacs can be set up for email on a Windows box as well: we have
> smtpmail.el for that.  In fact, I'm using smtpmail like that for quite
> some time with no problems.
>
> So I don't see why would this be ``a common problem''.