Agree with everything Bill said here…especially “…unwisely run
organizations drinking vendor Kool-Aid…”
The better solution is using OAuth2 which I believe is supported in many
IMAP servers such as Dovecot.
With that in mind, seems like the big boys are creating a somewhat false
sense of
My university implemented mandatory Duo authentication about a month ago. To my
extreme surprise MailMate handled it transparently. I had zero problems and did
nothing explicit. I still don’t understand why. By comparison, my iPad needed
to have the whole email account deleted and reinstalled.
On 25 Jun 2021, at 2:35, Harvey Leff wrote:
The university's reply is below if you are interested and willing to
read the claims. What I **DO** know is that the university replaced
its standard IMAP/SMTP server with Microsoft's proprietary ActiveSync.
Maybe Bill more authoritatively on this
