Re: configure-more.zip

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> 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''.