On 29 Apr 2021, at 19:48, Adi Pircalabu <a...@ddns.com.au> wrote:
> <rant importance=low noise_level=medium>
>
> Fact: Exchange (especially hosted) is 2010-ish, Office365 is the buzzword
> these days. Microsoft have been trying their best for quite some time now to
> cripple the IMAP support in Outlook as much as they can so that the email
> users will move their email business with o365 which - surprise surprise! -
> is soooo easy to autodiscover, autoconfigure, autothis, autothat. It's all
> about integrated services run by few well known powerful monopolies and it's
> only gonna get worse.
As an example of how MSFT (and others) make configuring real emails accounts
more difficult:
When you enter your email address, it would be TRIVIAL to check the MX records
for the domain and fill those in for the SMTP and IMAP servers, allowing users
to more easily add (if needed) the domain prefix.
No one does this.
Not a big thing, of course, but a silly omission that is best explained by
"Nah, if they are going to use real servers, let's not make it any easier."
> </rant>
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Ginger, not paying him the least attention. 'It's all the people
who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it
is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become
blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the
people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old
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bad ploughmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never
even find out. Maybe they are never born in a time when it is
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