From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Gallagher" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure-more.zip Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:19 -0500 Message-ID: <002b01c57f97$d871e7e0$0200a8c0@janus> References: <42C65DE9.6010703@student.lu.se> <42C676AC.2020903@student.lu.se> <42C6975D.8060602@student.lu.se> <007501c57f76$1ccf18d0$0200a8c0@janus> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120372364 5331 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 06:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 06:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 08:32:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doy1j-000485-1A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 08:32:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doy2r-0005JE-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Doxzf-0004en-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Doxza-0004e8-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoxzW-0004br-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.46.252.44] (helo=vms044pub.verizon.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoxzI-0000j9-BE; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from janus ([71.96.176.13]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJ100KHOGGE4BQ1@vms044.mailsrvcs.net>; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40181 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" To: "Kevin Gallagher" Cc: 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" >> Cc: >> >> From: "Eli Zaretskii" >> > (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''.