From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80205 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: MS Outlook circumvention in favor of Gnus? Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:50:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkhc6697.fsf@gmx.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318013860 7313 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 18:57:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:57:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28499@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 07 20:57:36 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 1RCFbz-0002st-Ny for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:57:36 +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 1RCFaS-0002Pj-Ja; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:56:00 -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 1RCFaQ-0002PX-4K for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:55:58 -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 1RCFaO-0006fz-TW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:55:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCFaM-0007Mo-VO for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:55:55 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Oct 2011 18:55:49 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO deusexmachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu002) with SMTP; 07 Oct 2011 20:55:49 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19wprU+WEBwpg9rxE0rTMECTOskKDkw2x/cenvexk pRfm/c1HGHnWz6 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:80205 Archived-At: Dear list members, In short, how does one avoid using Outlook, despite being forced to send and receive mails through it? A bit longer: So comes the dilemma working for a monolithic non-IT company stuck on MS products forcing all employees into the Outlook email client! I spent the entire day trying to make it behave reasonably, but even simple threading is impossible to accomplish as all emails with the same subject line is considered a thread! Not to mention splitting, scoring and linking from org-mode... or any other useful customisation. In return, I get all those little boxes to click on in obscure menus, /very/ helpful... 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? I am thinking something like making Outlook automatically dump all mails in a local mailbox on receipt and then read it locally by Gnus. Unfortunately it seems .pst files are the only options and it doesn't seem this can be directly accessed by Gnus... I am stuck with Windows XP and Outlook 2003, but believe installing emacs 23.3 with Gnus 5.13 should be possible. Any ideas and workarounds greatly appreciated! -- Johnny