On Sun, 4 May 2008, Dan Espen wrote:
Damn,
I'm behind a corporate Exchange Server which seems to have
changed recently to converting everything it sees to HTML.
How embarrassing.
My sympathy. That is one of the advantages of working in a large
university, I suppose. First, it is quite impossible for the IT people to
impose a monolithic structure on us, because some of us were here first.
Therefore, they know better than to try. They are pretty nice people,
really, and I consider them good to work with. Also, I am in a department
(mathematics) which is a local stronghold of Linux/Mac/Sun users and we do
sometimes band together to pound the table and defend our interests.
Therefore, the actual arrangement is:
1. Incoming mail to auburn.edu by default goes to a Groupwise server.
2. For those of us who really do not like that, there are designated local
servers, such as one in the mathematics department which runs either on
Solaris or Linux. Any mail to me at auburn.edu actually goes there, a
copy is kept, and the mail is forwarded to my own mailserver.
3. So long as I am not having some kind of hardware problem, I just go
over to the local departmental mail server periodically and delete
everything, because I already got it and dealt with it anyway.
4. 99% of my interaction with mail is on a machine completely under my own
control. Probably if I wanted to do things this way starting from now, it
would not be liked. But I have been doing it this way for over ten years.
Nope, no HTML converter on my incoming or outgoing mail.
Meanwhile, have you read the post about my problem? Nice one, isn't it?
One of those real brain teasers, to figure out at just what level and in
which piece of software the problem is.
Theodore Kilgore
