Re: MS Outlook circumvention in favor of Gnus?

[Johnny <yggdrasil@gmx.co.uk>]

Thanks for all ideas, it will be worth some serious experimentation next
week! 

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> You could also try the fetchmail-->local spool-->gnus route using
> cygwin(another software install) 

I have to rely on a solution that involves minimal customisation and
involvement from the IT department, so cygwin may be too optimistic.

> don't be surprised to get some flak from your Email admin chaps. They
> already have enough problems without some random chap coming in and
> saying 'oi, can you enable this/that for me?"

I never understood this attitude from some IT admins. Surely, IT is as
/support/ function in the company to /empower/ the employees to do their
work ? But no, if you need any productivity tools outside of the default
toolbox (aka MS Office), you're out of luck! It is like Lance Armstrong[1]
signing up for Tour de France and being told "here, you must use this
penny-farthing[2]", or hiring a carpenter to build your house and when
he shows up with his DeWalt toolkit saying "no, you have to use these
Aldi tools I keep at /my/ home". Why hire a professional and then
deliberatly cripple him/her?

Sorry about the rant, but I find this really frustrating!

Footnotes: 
[1]  No, I am not drawing any parallells to myself here!
[2]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing

-- 
Johnny