>>>> "Malcolm" == Malcolm Purvis
<malcolmp(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "Norbert" == Norbert Koch
<viteno(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Norbert> norbert - who has to cope with Notes
in the office ... --
Malcolm> What a polite way of putting it! A while ago I was forced to move
Malcolm> from Gnus to Notes at work and every day I find new ways to be
Malcolm> disgusted by it.
Malcolm> Malcolm - Forced to top post as work due to corporate policy.
I almost had that same problem when I worked at IBM (who forced everyone to
use Notes after they bought Lotus).
To get around it and continue using XEmacs for my mail I wrote some
(*shudder*) LotusScript (I hate admiting that) to package up my incoming email
(w/ it's header info in a special parsable format) and send it to my AIX
workstation where I then had a perl script reconstruct the original email as
best as possible (there were a *lot* of oddities I had to work around).
Thankfully I could send email out from the workstation directly so I didn't
have to hack up anything for that side.
Worked out pretty good for me (except when they attached Lotus documents to
their emails) and I think that code is still in use by a bunch of people back
there.
Now that I think about it, I *might* even have a copy of it lying around
somewhere if any of you currently suffering might be willing to hack at it
further to make it of use to you...
Chuck
ps - my officemate back there absolutely hated inline citations because they
were all so ingraned to top posting...
--
Charles K. Hines <ckh(a)requesttech.com> <chuck.hines(a)baesystems.com>
Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc. (
http://www.ReQuestTech.com/)
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a
horrible warning." - Catherine Aird