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Christian Forjahn
Sep 20, 2016Brass Contributor
Vote for Outlook for iPhone without routing through third party servers
If you check the privacy policy of the Outlook for iPhone app you will see that emails, credentials and data is stored and processed by a third party company named acompli. They name it a MS company ...
VasilMichev
Sep 20, 2016MVP
It doesnt look like you have been following the news lately :) Accompli has been aquired by MS and the move to MS servers is almost complete.
As for the native apps on iOS (or any other mobile OS for that matter), Microsoft cannot and will not support you on issues with those. It's simply out of their hands, the vendors are the ones that decide how to implement the ActiveSync protocol and any issues should be addressed by vendor's support. Few times we've actually seen Microsoft stepping in and making server-side changed to be used as a workaround until Apple devs fix their client, but that's an exception.
Christian Forjahn
Sep 20, 2016Brass Contributor
Thanks for that update. You are right, I didn´t follow these news. Do you have a link on that?
If the privacy policy will be changed we would be lucky and will be using the Outlook App.
- VasilMichevSep 20, 2016MVP
I'd refer you to TonyRedmond's article on the matter: https://www.petri.com/outlook-ios-android-dumping-aws-q3
- TonyRedmondSep 20, 2016MVP
Rule #1 of posting on online forums (of any type): Before posting, do some research. Use your favorite search engine, including DuckDuckGo, to check for common search phrases that might unearth an answer to your question. For instance, in this case a search for "Acompli Outlook app third-party" turns up many interesting topics, including my own piece from 18 months ago http://windowsitpro.com/blog/do-ex-acompli-now-outlook-clients-really-compromise-security-or-everyone-overreacting and the actual privacy policy that is in force for any clients that have not yet transitioned to the new architecture https://www.acompli.com/privacy-policy/. All of which goes to prove that the Internet really does have a lot of information to mine if only you care to look. And those who do care to look will find that their questions are treated with a lot more respect than those who don't. Just saying. For everyone's benefit.
- Christian ForjahnSep 21, 2016Brass Contributor
You are right Tony. I tried google, but it seemed that I used the worng search Terms.
Thanks for your help and for providing the link.