A very large number of companies, today, have tied themselves into using
Microsoft Outlook coupled with a Microsoft Exchange Server. Outlook has
many integrated features, including personal calendars, group calendars,
sending and processing meeting invitations, applying digital signatures,
applying message encryption/decryption via a company assigned personal key
assigned to each employee, etc. For example, when a meeting invititation
arrives in the inbox, an entry is placed into the user's calendar with
markings to indicate an invitation has been issued but no response has been
given. When I visit the message in my inbox, it displays buttons for me to
accept, to tentatively accept, or to decline the invitation. If I decline
the invitation, the meeting is automatically removed from my schedule.
As far as I know, Emacs has no support for many of these sophisticated
features of Outlook. Unless there is a new Emacs mail package with support
for Outlook's many features, allowing it to replace Outlook on their PC
desktop, many engineers are stuck using Outlook to read and to send email
while they are at work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kevin Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: configure-more.zip
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:22:51 -0500
From: "Kevin Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (Btw, I'm amazed to see that you use something other than Emacs for
> sending mail.)
Ah, I'm not! It has become a common problem. Many corporations and
universities, today, only support email on MS Windows networked boxes, to
which all employees/students have access. Unix/GNU Linux networks, on
the
other hand, are typically used only for product development by those
engineers doing the actual work. Not infrequently, these are isolated
networks with no Internet access.
Emacs can be set up for email on a Windows box as well: we have
smtpmail.el for that. In fact, I'm using smtpmail like that for quite
some time with no problems.
So I don't see why would this be ``a common problem''.
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