Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Corey Foote]

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Hello,

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?

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. :-)

Thank you for helping me free myself from proprietary software!

Sincerely,

Corey Foote

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Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[William Xu]

Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:

> 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.

This does not sound like what a mail/newsgroup reader would do, does it?

AFAIC, I don't think Gnus has this functionality.

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RE: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Corey Foote]

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Well are there any other Emacs extensions which implement this functionality? If not, is there any other software licensed under an open source license which implements this functionality?

> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: william.xwl@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 04:37:18 +0900
> Subject: Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus
> 
> Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This does not sound like what a mail/newsgroup reader would do, does it?
> 
> AFAIC, I don't think Gnus has this functionality.
> 
> -- 
> William
> 
> http://williamxu.net9.org
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Corey Foote wrote:
> Well are there any other Emacs extensions which implement this 
> functionality? If not, is there any other software licensed under an 
> open source license which implements this functionality?


Maybe the Mozilla calendar? Though it does not seem to be quite ready yet:

   http://www.mozilla.org/products/

Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com>
> 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.

Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:46:26 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Cc: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Corey Foote wrote:
> > Well are there any other Emacs extensions which implement this 
> > functionality? If not, is there any other software licensed under an 
> > open source license which implements this functionality?
> 
> 
> Maybe the Mozilla calendar? Though it does not seem to be quite ready yet:
> 
>    http://www.mozilla.org/products/

Are you sure the bundled `icalendar' package is not good enough for
the OP?  If so, can you tell what is lacking in `icalendar'?  At least
from its documentation, it looks like it already implements everything
that Mozilla Calendar does, and it explicitly supports importing from
Outlook-generated appointment messages into the Emacs diary.

Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Bastien Guerry]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:46:26 +0100
>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Cc: William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 
>> Corey Foote wrote:
>> > Well are there any other Emacs extensions which implement this 
>> > functionality? If not, is there any other software licensed under an 
>> > open source license which implements this functionality?
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe the Mozilla calendar? Though it does not seem to be quite ready yet:
>> 
>>    http://www.mozilla.org/products/
>
> Are you sure the bundled `icalendar' package is not good enough for
> the OP?  

Yes `icalendar' will let the OP import Outlook-generated appointment
messages.  But I think the OP also wants to create such message, and
send them to people using Outlook.

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Re: Migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:21:59 +0000
> 
> > Are you sure the bundled `icalendar' package is not good enough for
> > the OP?  
> 
> Yes `icalendar' will let the OP import Outlook-generated appointment
> messages.  But I think the OP also wants to create such message, and
> send them to people using Outlook.

To me, it looks like `icalendar-export-region' should fit the bill,
but I never used it, so I may be wrong here.