On Feb 8, 2015 11:41 PM, "Yasha Karant" <[email protected]> wrote: > > My university IT department, external to any academic or research unit, has made the arbitrary decision to force us to use a Microsoft Office365 external distributed proprietary (cloud) service for official university email. Although this service nominally supports IETF SMTP and IMAP protocols, it is abysmally slow when so doing. The campus IT spokesperson has explained that only a client compliant with Microsoft ActiveSync will fully function with this imposed proprietary closed system service -- translation: if one wants reasonable speed in email, use an ActiveSync client -- probably from Microsoft. > > Is there any such client (Microsoft or otherwise) available for Linux, and in particular, SL 7? All that I found on the web is to use proprietary Microsoft Outlook under a MS Windows environment under a virtual machine (e.g., VirtualBox) under Linux -- not a solution I want for regular email service. > > For anyone currently using (by force or choice) Microsoft ActiveSync, does it in fact support the functionality of IMAP and SMTP without staying completely with a Microsoft proprietary environment, including Microsoft proprietary software applications? >
I am having a hard time parsing what you are asking. It is SMTP and IMAP like and it is completely proprietary. I don't know of any linux clients at this time > Yasha Karant
