Thanks for sharing your experience. Overall what I gather is that ITS is running an SMTP/POP-enabled mail server on campus in conjunction with a Microsoft product. Maybe a few ITS people on this mailing list can provide more insight on the current technical setup.
Alex On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Jon Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I tried Apple Mail for a while, but gave up and proudly went > back to mutt. Unfortunately for your question, I don't use Outlook at > all. Normal faculty email is sent to Outlook by Truman's incoming > smtp server, but mine is diverted to exim4 on a debian box (after > which I use fetchmail over an ssh tunnel to get it to mutt on my > laptop). So, sorry I can't help with your Outlook question. > > Jon > -- > Jon Beck, PhD mailto:[email protected] > Professor of Computer Science 2162 Violette Hall > Truman State University 660.785.7233 > Kirksville, MO 63501 http://quartz.truman.edu/ > > On 18 Feb 2009 12:21:02, Alex Horn wrote: > >> >From what I know, ITS uses Outlook to maintain faculty email. But at >> the same time I remember Don's and Dr. Beck's desktop setup: Don uses >> mutt and Dr. Beck retrieves his email via the built-in Apple Mail >> application. Generally, Outlook cannot be integrated with *nix very >> well so I am wondering what ITS does to increase Outlook's >> interoperability. >> >> Alex > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [email protected] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
