> On 17. Jan 2022, at 10.54, Sami Ketola <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 17. Jan 2022, at 10.31, Vladislav Kurz <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dne 15. 01. 22 v 18:46 Panayiotis Fafakos napsal(a):
>>> The same here in Greece.
>>> The only Outlook version which respects open standards concerning the IMAP 
>>> protocol is Outlook 2010.
>>> We thought at first that Outlook 2013 would also be compatible with 
>>> dovecot. Yet, as said, it seems to be a Microsoft company (internal) 
>>> policy, not to comply with standards, since this would bring their "tower 
>>> of cards" down.
>>> We hoped that Outlook 2016 would make a difference, or at least Outlook 
>>> 2019, but none of the sort happened.
>>> What is the exact problem? Well, here it is:
>>> Many times, users create folders with non-compatible characters in their 
>>> folder names, either slashes or dots, etc.
>>> Outlook accepts these characters as valid, while dovecot will not. Yet 
>>> Outlook creates the folder for the user and the user thinks he can use the 
>>> folder, although the folder does not exist on the server.
>>> The user stores emails in the folder and uses it, until one day he either 
>>> logs in via his webmail and does not see the specified folder. He then does 
>>> not worry very much, since he can still work from his PC where Outlook is 
>>> installed.
>>> Once the PC needs to have his hard disk replaced due to a failure, then 
>>> he/she discovers that his emails are lost forever.
>> 
>> Thanks for sharing your experience. We had exactly the same problem with 
>> Cyrus IMAP. Good to know this is not Cyrus' fault.
> 
> Please also note that atleast for M365 licensed version of Outlook for Mac 
> (version 16.57) now forces sync to microsoft cloud by default when adding 
> IMAP account:
> 
> https://imgur.com/a/sB3Kfu6 <https://imgur.com/a/sB3Kfu6>
> 
> (says in image: For better experience, your messages will be synced to the 
> Microsoft cloud)
> 
> I cannot opt-out from this. (Just realised that this actually might be 
> something forced by my employers Intune policies)

And indeed after I continued to add the account the incoming IMAPS connection 
to my dovecot server came from 52.98.150.133 wwned by Microsoft. 

Sami

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