On 4/11/20 2:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Exchange used to do all manner of stupid things, but now that Microsoft
is running it themselves and making money from O365, they seem to have
figured out how to make it send mail correctly.
I've found that Exchange / IIS SMTP is fairly standards compliant since
the early-mid 2000s.
Microsoft has always been making money off of Exchange. (Presuming
people are being legal about it.) Be it CALs, upgrade licensing, etc.
Nowadays they prefer to cripple Outlook with non-Exchange protocols,
so that our users complain about not having shared calendars when
we've had CalDAV integrated with IMAP for 10+ years.
CalDAV is decidedly not an email protocol; POP3, IMAP, SMTP.
I'm not aware of Outlook ever claiming support for CalDAV. It has
supported POP3, IMAP, SMTP, Exchange proprietary protocols, and likely NNTP.
You can get shared calendaring, address books, and folders without
Exchange. I used MAPIlab's Colab product for a number of clients for
many years circa 2010. It is (was?) an Outlook add-on that added
support for accessing a shared PST file. It worked great in multiple
client's offices of between 5 and 25 people. (My bigger clients had
Exchange.)
So, IMHO, complaining that Outlook doesn't support CalDAV is sort of
like complaining that Firefox doesn't support SIP telephony. Could it
if it wanted to, sure. Should it, maybe. Does it, no.
--
Grant. . . .
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