[Gllug] And Another Thing

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Fri Jun 28 07:31:41 UTC 2002


On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, tet at accucard.com muttered drunkenly:
> Yep, that's pretty dumb. The alternative, of course, is just to use
> Linux. Yes, I know your corporate mail standard is Outlook / Exchange,
> but that shouldn't stop you. Whenever I've been in that situation, I've
> set up an inbox rule to autoforward stuff to my Linux box as it arrives.
> Some procmail/formail trickery fixes the broken headers that Exchange
> uses, and voila -- you have your mail on a sensible system, and none
> of the rest of the office is any the wiser...

Yes, but how do you send mail *out* again if the clueless office
sysadmin staff have set up Exchange to use only the horrible proprietary
deformed-IMAP protocol? :(

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                                             `Oh, no dinner for him...'


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