RE: [h-e-w] Emacs + Imap/MS Exchange

[Underwood, Jonathan]

ooops, ignore that, my mistake, they do need cygwin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Underwood, Jonathan 
> Sent: August 28, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: Underwood, Jonathan; 'address@hidden'
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Emacs + Imap/MS Exchange
> 
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> As an aside, i forgot to mention the existence of unix mail 
> utilities compiled for use with windows (i.e. native win32 
> binaries) which remove the need for a cygwin installation. 
> However, i've made no attempt to use them, so have nothing to 
> offer on their functionality. They also seem to lack a mail 
> transfer agent, which could be problematic, but i'm not sure 
> how their version of fetchmail works. Anyway, the link is:
> 
> http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> jonathan.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: August 28, 2002 2:46 PM
> > To: 'address@hidden'
> > Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Emacs + Imap/MS Exchange
> > 
> > 
> > Hi 
> > 
> > First off, thanks to all who replied to my original question 
> > giving details
> > about how to setup and use gnus with imap support to send and 
> > receive mail
> > using emacs and a MS Exchange server (Galen Boyer, jasonr, 
> > andreas ames,
> > Allen Windhorn).
> > 
> > Following someone elses suggestion (I forget who and can't 
> > seem to find the
> > message in the archive) I also looked at the possibility of 
> > using cygwins
> > mail (www.cygwin.com) tools to do the job, and thought I'd 
> > outline how i got
> > that to work here for future reference as a quick start to 
> > anyone in the
> > future faced with an MS exchange server.
> > 
> > 1) Getting mail using cygwin fetchmail and procmail with vm.
> > fetchmail needs to be setup prior to use. I did that by 
> first running
> > fetchmailconf (program that is installed with fetchmail), and 
> > then tweaking
> > the resulting file ($HOME/.fetchmailrc) such that it looks 
> like this:
> > 
> > set postmaster "Administrator"
> > set bouncemail
> > set no spambounce
> > set properties ""
> > # the -f - option below is needed for use with vm under emacs
> > poll mail.server.address with proto IMAP
> >        user 'underwoodj' there with password 'mypassword' is 
> > 'underwoodj'
> > here
> >        keep
> >        mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f -"
> > 
> > procmail is used as the local delivery mail transfer agent, 
> > and can be setup
> > to do all manner of complicated mail filtering which i 
> didn't have the
> > inclination to explore. Anyway, most importantly, the "-f -" 
> > option produces
> > a mail spool file compatible with vm. mail will then be 
> located in the
> > /var/spool/mail/Administrator file under the cygwin 
> installation tree.
> > 
> > vm needs to be downloaded and installed (see 
> > www.wonderworkes.com/vm/), and
> > the following added to .emacs:
> > 
> > (setq load-path (append (list "c:/emacs/site-lisp/vm-7.07/") 
> > load-path))
> > (autoload 'vm "vm" "Start VM on your primary inbox." t)
> > (autoload 'vm-other-frame "vm" "Like `vm' but starts in 
> > another frame." t)
> > (autoload 'vm-visit-folder "vm" "Start VM on an arbitrary 
> folder." t)
> > (autoload 'vm-visit-virtual-folder "vm" "Visit a VM virtual 
> > folder." t)
> > (autoload 'vm-mode "vm" "Run VM major mode on a buffer" t)
> > (autoload 'vm-mail "vm" "Send a mail message using VM." t)
> > (autoload 'vm-submit-bug-report "vm" "Send a bug report 
> about VM." t)
> > 
> > and a vm initiatialization file setup ($HOME/.vm) containing 
> > something like
> > the following
> > 
> > (setq vm-spool-files 
> '("c://cygwin//var//spool//mail//Administrator"))
> > 
> > along with any other vm setup stuff you fancy. See the vm 
> > documentation on
> > more complicated and functional ways of setting up spool file 
> > mail reading
> > etc.
> > 
> > Once that is all done mail can be checked for by typing 
> > "fetchmail" at a
> > cygwin command prompt, or by typing something like "fetchmail 
> > -d <time in
> > seconds>" to start fetchmail in daemon mode checking for mail 
> > every <time in
> > seconds>. Alternatively one could put together a simple lisp 
> > function to run
> > fetchmail  and then vm-get-new.mail.
> > 
> > 
> > 2) Sending mail using ssmtp with user authentication.
> > In principle, the package smtpmail.el could be used for 
> > sending mail off to
> > your smtp server. The version bundled with emacs 21.2 however 
> > doesn't allow
> > for smtp authentication (however, see (3) below), and so i 
> > looked at using
> > ssmtp which is bundled with the cygwin mail tools.  
> > ssmtp needs to be setup - there is a program installed with 
> > ssmtp called
> > ssmtp-config which can do this for you and creates the file
> > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf which looks like:
> > 
> > #
> > # /etc/ssmtp.conf -- a config file for sSMTP sendmail.
> > #
> > # The person who gets all mail for userids < 10
> > root=postmaster
> > # The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required
> > # no MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named 
> > mail.domain.com
> > # The example will fit if you are in domain.com and you 
> > mailhub is so named.
> > mailhub=nrcmrdbh1.imsb.nrc.ca
> > # Where will the mail seem to come from?
> > #rewriteDomain=nrc.ca
> > # The full hostname
> > hostname=underwood.sims.nrc.ca
> > # Set this to never rewrite the "From:" line (unless not 
> given) and to
> > # use that address in the "from line" of the envelope.
> > #FromLineOverride=YES
> > 
> > Note that for me, the mail hub has a different address to 
> the exchange
> > server (this point had me stuck for hours)
> > 
> > Adding the following to the .emacs file sets the sendmail.el 
> > package to use
> > ssmtp:
> > (setq user-full-name "Jonathan Underwood")
> > (setq user-mail-address "address@hidden")
> > (setq sendmail-program '("c:/cygwin/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe -auUSERNAME
> > -apPASSWORD"))
> > 
> > 3) Sending mail using the latest version of smtpmail.el
> > The latest version of smtpmail.el (available from
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/mail/
> smtpmail.el?re
> v=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup) allows for user 
> authentication
> on a smtp server. To use this instead of ssmtp, download that 
> file, and
> place it somewhere in your load path and add the following to .emacs
> 
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "nrcmrdbh1.imsb.nrc.ca")
> (setq smtpmail-local-domain "nrc.ca")
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) ; if you use `mail'
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials  ; or use ~/.authinfo
>       '(("nrcmrdbh1.imsb.nrc.ca" 25 "USERNAME" "PASSWORD")))
> (load-library "smtpmail.el")
> 
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> 
> Hope this is of some use to someone. Apologies for such a 
> long message.
> 
> jonathan.
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