From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80230 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MS Outlook circumvention in favor of Gnus? Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:10:44 +0100 Message-ID: <878vow556z.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <87zkhc6697.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <8262k0i2c7.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318061853 13874 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 08:17:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 08:17:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28520@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 08 10:17:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCS5y-00010h-Pi for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:17:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RCS59-0006KX-RZ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RCS58-0006KL-9Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCS56-0000c3-Ow for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCS55-0001bb-27 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:16:27 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Oct 2011 08:16:21 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO deusexmachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu005) with SMTP; 08 Oct 2011 10:16:21 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/eVVcyeGjezR55NSJ4EtCUyPJPadvq/PkR23Cg5L yzI8X0BThiMfL1 In-Reply-To: <8262k0i2c7.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:04:00 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80230 Archived-At: Thanks for all ideas, it will be worth some serious experimentation next week! Sivaram Neelakantan 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