From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23648 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rupa Schomaker (list)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MS Outlook for mail server? Date: 01 Jul 1999 12:19:22 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161341 3111 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:49:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12689 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:20:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB03656; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:20:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:20:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16794 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:20:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gw.rupa.com (postfix@cx1823-a.alsv1.occa.home.com [24.5.151.91]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12641 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by gw.rupa.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1DE7B1D1E5; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Rolf Marvin BXe Lindgren" Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: "Rolf Marvin BXe Lindgren"'s message of "Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:35:28 GMT" Original-Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23648 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23648 Rolf Marvin BXe Lindgren writes: > [ Jack Vinson > > | My company is moving to Outlook for all their mail and calendaring needs. > | I am torn between the cool integrated nature of Outlook and our favorite > | News/Mail reader. What method does Outlook (with an Exchange server) use > | to store mail? Is this the imap issue that I have been ignoring because I > | didn't think it applies to me? > > you know, I just _think_ I'd be able to kill for the possibility to > use Gnus for reading MS Outlook mail. has anybody, er, actually hacked > the Lisp needed for an interface? Outlook is a mail interface, and like gnus, supports multiple backends. It supports POP (and stored in a local DB), IMAP (stored in an IMAP server) and MAPI (corporate mode) which is what it uses to tie into Exchange (and potentially others). Exchange is a mail/discussion server that has it's own proprietary interface. It also has an IMAP interface which can be used to get at both your mail and the discussion groups (think of them as newsgroups). I think you *could* use the nnimap backend for gnus to talk to Exchange. The problem is that Exchange (at least by default) has lots of group names with spaces in them (eg: Public Messages/sometopic) which gnus simply cannot handle. There was a thread going in the nnimap list (with some patches) to munge the space into something else so that gnus could use them. I don't use Exchange as my backend, but I do use an IMAP backend (Cyrus's imap server). I had to move a bunch of my old folders that had spaces in them to be gnus friendly -- that is not very nice. ALso, I can create folders in other email clients that simply won't be noticed by gnus -- also not a very nice thing. Even with some of the performance "issues" in nnimap pgnus+nnimap is the "best" imap client I can find. It *could* be better though... -- Rupa (rupa@rupa.com for normal email) Please don't email duplicate replies.