From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80210 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MS Outlook circumvention in favor of Gnus? Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:50:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87fwj45v4h.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <87zkhc6697.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <87mxdc4fv6.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318028222 1212 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 22:57:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 22:57:02 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28504@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 08 00:56:59 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 1RCJLe-0004NS-O9 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:56:59 +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 1RCJL8-0003Wt-0u; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RCJL5-0003Wd-4m for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCJL4-0006wn-1g for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCJL2-0004p2-1y for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:56:20 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Oct 2011 22:56:14 -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 00:56:14 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19u40YwRXNu04JdAXf3sazezVbObLmsRmeYczBCZZ CN2J9op5C+bo14 In-Reply-To: <87mxdc4fv6.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> ("Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=B8gren=22's?= message of "Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:05:33 +0200") 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:80210 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj=C3=B8gren) writes: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:50:12 +0100, Johnny wrote: > >> While it is out of the question to get a custom email client installed, >> I am wondering if there anyone on the list know good workarounds to >> ideally get mail dynamically into Gnus? > > My favourite workaround is to beg for the Microsoft Exchange Server to > have/get IMAP enabled (this is what I use). Hopefully IMAP is already enabled and it is possible to find the necessary account settings through Outlook (e.g. imap server and port in authinfo). [1] Is the username and password normally the same as machine login credentials (in typical office-based solutions) as there are no separate (user managed) credentials for the mail server? Maybe this could be easy after all? Footnotes:=20 [1] It looks like one should be able to go to the settings for the account under Tools in Outlook and find all settings.=20 --=20 Johnny