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GIles P Croft
May 27, 2018Copper Contributor
Mail.app on iOS: Cannot move mail from IMAP to greyed out Office 365 mail account
I've recently set up an Office 365 Microsoft Exchange email account in Apple's own Mail.app. I've done this on two Macs (running 10.12.6 Sierra), an iPhone and an iPad (both running 11.3.1). The acco...
TonyRedmond
May 28, 2018MVP
Talk to Apple. They create the Mail application for iOS and use the ActiveSync protocol licensed from Microsoft to connect to Exchange, But it's entirely in Apple's control to decide what features they support for different mail stores...
- dgavinMay 24, 2024Copper Contributor
TonyRedmond Mail has been an open standard since at least the 70ies. I expect any mail app and mail server to adhere to one of the oldest standards on the internet still in use. Microsoft has no business ruining standards with proprietary protocols. This is exactly what gave them their own Wikipedia page with the title "Embrace, enhance, extinguish".