On 29/04/2021 10:22, Steve Dondley wrote:
On 2021-04-29 01:45 AM, @lbutlr wrote:
On 28 Apr 2021, at 12:49, Steve Dondley <s...@dondley.com> wrote:
I repeatedly have a hell of a time getting clients' Outlook software
working well with Dovecot. It's hard for me to test myself since I
don't have Outlook and it would be impossible to keep up with all
the different versions anyway.
How old is the version of Outlook they are using? Office 2010 is a
disaster, and if I recall correctly 2014 has many issues as well.
I'm not sure. It's fairly recent though.
Some more nuttiness: I bit the bullet and downloaded a trial version
of MS 365 and downloaded the Outlook desktop. On my mac, at least,
there are two different interfaces/version of Outlook: the "old"
Outlook and a "new," more minimalist version. You can switch between
the versions easily.
On the "old" outlook, I was able to get things set up without issue.
But with the "new" outlook, I couldn't send email or set up a new
account.
It turns out I had to enable the smtp_tls_wrappermode setting to get
it working with the "new" Outlook. See
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_tls_wrappermode
I thought the wrapper setting was just for the long dead Outlook
Express mail client. But now I'm wondering if I need this setting for
some versions of Outlook.
Even so, it's terrible software that is designed to 'encourage' users
to use Exchange Servers for mail instead of real email servers.
I'm not conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but come to the same
conclusion.
I am totally unfamiliar with Exchange servers. What do they offer,
exactly, that dovecot/postfix does not (besides a revenue stream for MS)?
built in calander integration.
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