On 28 Apr 2021, at 12:49, Steve Dondley <s at 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. Even so, it's terrible software that is designed to 'encourage' users to use Exchange Servers for mail instead of real email servers. -- Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Steve Dondley
2021-Apr-29 09:22 UTC
What imap ssl/auth settings work best with MS Outlook?
On 2021-04-29 01:45 AM, @lbutlr wrote:> On 28 Apr 2021, at 12:49, Steve Dondley <s at 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)?