>Stupid employer then. Perhaps you should explain all the time >wasted on manual filtering, that another client does automatically >for you? Even if your'e "nice" and don't read the lyx list on company time, >the messages still get in your way until sorted. >I can understand that they don't want to buy another client, >but why prevent people from using free ones? Silly.
It is not so much a case of not being allowed to use the free ones (thunderbird/pine/mutt) etc. It is that it is not possible. The "Groupwise Client" from Novell does not use standard (IMAP) protocols to talk to the mailbox on the server. It also has it's own calendaring system which we use internally. I am not telling all this to have the lists changed, I am just explaining why I can do so very little about the problem :) >>Anyways, I agree that this would be usefull. It is not important enough >>for me to spend money on, but maybe if you begged/bribed the list >>maintainer he/she would add this feature. Like I said, it is not "that" important to me, I just said that it would be useful (for me). >Perhaps begging/talking to this employer's IT staff might work too. :-/ Yes, been there, they are not that keen on breaking their contract with Novell. I hope that with Novell's buy-in into the Linux world, we might slowly be migrating to a system that has open standards so that users can choose the tools they use. Also thanks to Angus for suggesting gmane (www.gmane.com). I will check it out. Regards, Johann -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.
