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"you're not forced to"
Authored by: mbouckaert on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT
Using MSOffice365 at work.

Standards-compliant it is not. IMAP works but limited to
vanilla email. Everything else is tunneled through https:
and their own "standard" conventions.

Thankfully there are some administrations on the Continent
who have gone OpenSource, and thereby allowed a product like
DavMail to be created (see http://davmail.sourceforge.net)

It converts "standard" MS for email, address books,
calendaring into Standards. Maybe a tad slow, but works
quite well.

Cheers,


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bck

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"you're not forced to"
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 07:21 PM EDT
Not enabling IMAP is a sysadmin issue, not a MS issue. For regular consumers
modifying technical settings is unreasonable, but if you're maintaining a
mailserver changing a default is hardly unreasonable.

As for buggy - we've had no problems with it (activesync however is near
unusable on a couple of galaxy SIIs some employee's have, which is why we
investigated IMAP on exchange to begin with!), but YMMV of course.

You won't be syncing contacts/random MS proprietry stuff, but really that's more
wanting the features in the MS protocol then simply interacting with windows
servers.

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