GNUS and exchange

GNUS and exchange

[Andrea Crotti]

I have to connect to an ugly Exchange server at work for the internal
mail.

I succeeded to make it work with Thunderbird since IMAP is luckily
enabled, but I need to authenticate with NTLM, and I didn't find a way
yet.

I do have ntlm.el so in theory it should work, but I didn't find any
working example about that... Does anyone use it already?
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Re: GNUS and exchange

[Bernardo]

> I have to connect to an ugly Exchange server at work for the internal
> mail.
> 
> I succeeded to make it work with Thunderbird since IMAP is luckily
> enabled, but I need to authenticate with NTLM, and I didn't find a way
> yet.
> 

you may want to consider 'cntlm', an authenticating proxy which caches 
your credentials and forwards them to your corporate firewall;
you should be able to find it on sourceforge

Re: GNUS and exchange

[Andrea Crotti]

Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com> writes:

>
> you may want to consider 'cntlm', an authenticating proxy which caches
> your credentials and forwards them to your corporate firewall;
> you should be able to find it on sourceforge
>

Mm it's also in the archlinux repository but not for 64 bits, so maybe
it doesn't work.

I have, however, configured davmail, and it works pretty well with
thunderbird, but I can't make it work with GNUS.

In theory something like this should be enough (and then adding a line
in the netrc file with user and password).

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  ;; (nnimap "internal"
  ;;         (nnimap-address "localhost")
  ;;         (nnimap-server-port "1143"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Now I lost the log but it can't connect to localhost, even if the port
is actually open and davmail is listening.

Anyone got davmail+GNUS working?

Re: GNUS and exchange

[Jonathan Groll]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:10:04 +0100, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I lost the log but it can't connect to localhost, even if the port
> is actually open and davmail is listening.
> 
> Anyone got davmail+GNUS working?

IIRC I used getmail to retrieve the mails and save them to a maildir
(from davmail) - via POP and not IMAP. You could do similar or read
this thread, where mention in made of a "rewritten nnimap backend"
[don't know about it myself - use wanderlust]:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69762

Cheers,
Jonathan
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