From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure-more.zip Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 08:22:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C65DE9.6010703@student.lu.se> <42C676AC.2020903@student.lu.se> <42C6975D.8060602@student.lu.se> <007501c57f76$1ccf18d0$0200a8c0@janus> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120368420 32152 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 05:27:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 05:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 07:26:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dox05-0000rG-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:26:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dowys-0006Rg-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DowyP-0006NF-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DowyK-0006Kf-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DowyJ-0006KF-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dox1k-0005Uz-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-35-17.inter.net.il [80.230.35.17]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BST42193 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:22:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: "Kevin Gallagher" In-reply-to: <007501c57f76$1ccf18d0$0200a8c0@janus> (kevin.gal@verizon.net) 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:40179 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40179 > 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''.