Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756066Ab0HIKC4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 06:02:56 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58453 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755958Ab0HIKCz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 06:02:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server. From: David Woodhouse To: Matti Aarnio Cc: viresh kumar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" In-Reply-To: <20100809090137.GP13165@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: <4C5F9B25.8080401@st.com> <20100809064957.GB16661@pengutronix.de> <4C5FA698.90904@st.com> <20100809090137.GP13165@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:02:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1281348164.12908.47.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.31.6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1382 Lines: 34 On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:01 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > It would probably be "against corporate policy" to use gmail for these > emails... If that's the case, then you really *do* need to get your boss to fix it. If the company provides a working email account, it makes a certain amount of sense for them to ask you to use it. But if all they provide is Microsoft Exchange, that's insane -- what Exchange provides is *like* email, but it is *not* email. Once you start trying to use it for real email, you find it's broken by design in a large number of ways. It makes no sense for them to require that you use Exchange for Internet email, because that's not what Exchange does. If my corporate overloads told me I had to use my Exchange "messaging" account for external email communication, they would get a quite clear 'no' in response. My response may also contain suggestions that they use certain other objects for purposes for which they were not designed. Seriously, just use an external email account and ignore the broken corporate policy. 'Policy' is just a euphemism for not having to think for yourself. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/