Re: Can Gnus talk to Exchange?

[Dan Katz <dkatz@profitlogic.com>]

On 20 Oct 2003, Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> At work, I have Outlook which talks to an Exchange server.  You can
> guess that I wanted to use Gnus.  And I even found the host name of
> the server in the preferences somewhere, and I telneted to its port
> 143, and it seems to answer.  Good, you think.  Alas, I don't know
> how to log in.  I tried my Windows user name and password (I think I
> have a domain login and not a local login -- how can I find out?),
> but no go.
>
> The admins aren't willing to help, but if I get it working without
> their help, they won't mind it seems...
>
> Maybe it's as simple as using "myusername@myhostname" as the login,
> or suchlike.

I think it is.


We work with a system like this too.  Exchange has an IMAP option (I
don't know if it's turned on by default or not) which will allow you
to connect via nnimap.  In my case, my .gnus.el has the moral
equivalent of 

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "your.mail.host"))

and my .authinfo has something like

machine your.mail.host login you password your_password



I also do a fair bit of splitting on that system, which sets up the
IMAP folders properly.  The only problem I have is that if I ever open
Outlook again then it tries to do its own "reading" of the mail in the
INBOX which makes gnus unable to split the stuff properly later.  In
short, I use gnus and only gnus and make sure never to open Outlook.
This can be a pain if your workplace uses Exchange heavily for
calendaring work and doesn't use (or have) the iCal compliant version
of the calendaring interface.

Dan