Send mail from Gnus using MAPI?

Send mail from Gnus using MAPI?

[Kai Grossjohann]

I've got a strange twist on the Gnus/Exchange thing: it seems that my
server groks IMAP and POP3 and NNTP, but it doesn't support SMTP for
sending.  So I'm happily reading mail via IMAP, but I can't send.

Is there a way to get Gnus to send mail using MAPI?

Kai

Re: Send mail from Gnus using MAPI?

[David S Goldberg]

There are products out there, possibly some free, that allow you to
run a SMTP to MAPI gateway on your PC.  I know this came up at work a
year or so ago for some of our users working at customer sites.  The
customers did not support SMTP and MAPI was somehow interfering with
their digital signatures (disclaimer, I have no idea if that was a
real issue with MAPI or user error).  I wasn't directly involved so I
don't know how they resolved the problem but at one point they were
looking at gateways.  A google search for "SMTP MAPI gateway" just
turned up a bunch of hits.  Hopefully one of them leads to something
useful.
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: Send mail from Gnus using MAPI?

[Kai Grossjohann]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> There are products out there, possibly some free, that allow you to
> run a SMTP to MAPI gateway on your PC.  I know this came up at work a
> year or so ago for some of our users working at customer sites.  The
> customers did not support SMTP and MAPI was somehow interfering with
> their digital signatures (disclaimer, I have no idea if that was a
> real issue with MAPI or user error).  I wasn't directly involved so I
> don't know how they resolved the problem but at one point they were
> looking at gateways.  A google search for "SMTP MAPI gateway" just
> turned up a bunch of hits.  Hopefully one of them leads to something
> useful.

It's a cool idea.  I tried the first entry, but that didn't seem to
work: the smtp trace shows me that the remote end (ie, that gateway)
is accepting the message, but then fails with an "unspecified error"
after the DATA command.

I guess it's best to deinstall that thing and try another one.

Kai

Re: Send mail from Gnus using MAPI?

[Marcus Frings]

* Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote:

> I guess it's best to deinstall that thing and try another one.

Well, if you discover a way to solve this issue don't forget to send me
a mail. ;-)

Regards,
Mar"now starting the mail exchange between you and Christoph"cus
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