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Copper Contributor

May 27, 2018

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...

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DrNo666

Copper Contributor

Mar 06, 2019

Same Problem here. No solution either. Really bothered that this occurs and a good reason to avoid Office365 for business in mixed IT environments. This is basic stuff and if MS can’t solve this with Apple, other solutions than O365 might be well worth it. So 90s.

Adam Lavery
Copper Contributor
Apr 30, 2019
DrNo666why are you blaming Microsoft for this? It's squarely down to Apple not supporting moves to Exchange mailboxes. Just like it's down to Apple to not provide any way to export mail from their stupid iOS mail app, or provide any way to bulk select multiple mails for move.

Apple have dumbed down their mail app so much that it is now very dumb!
- EW2525
  Copper Contributor
  May 03, 2020
  Adam Lavery at least the Apple Mail app allows messages to be moved between email account with the notable exception of Exchange whereas the MS Outlook Mail App does not.