Support EWS or EAS

[mathieumd]

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App version

6.000

Problem you are trying to solve

My current work uses Zimbra as mail backend, but the smartphone used by employees unfortunately have to use Gmail app because of ActiveSync (Zimbra EAS or EWS).

I saw #606 (comment), but now that K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family (congrats, by the way! 🎉), maybe EWS/EAS could be reconsidered?

Suggested solution

Supporting EWS and/or EAS.

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

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[cketti]

This is unlikely to happen. Implementing a proprietary protocol will always be at the bottom of the TODO list. And that list is very long.

[mathieumd]

I understand. And I'm not going to praise proprietary software! But, on the other side, corporate adoption of K9M is lower than it could due to this missing feature. At least at my place it's clearly the case. Maybe joining Thunderbird could be the opportunity to launch something like "sponsored features"? I know my employer is very likely to pay (maybe not alone, though) for missing features it wants.

[tdboorman]

I personally think that this should be higher up the to do list. I do not want to have to use two email apps on my phone, which I currently have to do as IMAP access has been removed for one of my Office 365 accounts.