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From: Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr>
Subject: Re: org and microsoft exchange
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:21:00 +0200
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> 
> I have no idea what I will need to do!  I really am truly ignorant of
> the whole MS world other than I know, if push comes to shove, I can
> install cygwin and then Emacs when I have to... ;-)

Actually, there are emacs binaries for win32 that work without needing
cygwin.

> > For the record, here are some other things that I tried/maybe worth
> > trying:
> >
> > - Davmail + thunderbird: allows accessing exchange mail and calendar and
> >   syncinc with it, but did not manage to import org ics into that.
> >
> > - Evolution and the openexchange client may be other things to try.
> 
> These two seem to imply using something other than Emacs for my email?
> Or have I misunderstood?

Openexchange is a command line tool to synchronize with an exchange
server. But it is still incomplete, and I found it a nightmare to
configure and use.

Evolution is indeed another mail client, but my intent was to use it
solely as a mean to synchronize the org mode ics file with the exchange
calendar. Instead of using outlook for this...

Matthieu