What imap ssl/auth settings work best with MS Outlook?

[Benny Pedersen]

On 2021-04-30 03:48, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
> On 29-04-2021 23:08, @lbutlr wrote:
>> On 29 Apr 2021, at 03:22, Steve Dondley wrote:
>>> I am totally unfamiliar with Exchange servers. What do they offer, 
>>> exactly, that dovecot/postfix does not (besides a revenue stream for 
>>> MS)?
>> 
>> A monthly stipend to Microsoft?
>> 
>> (I think they actuallyy do offer some useful tools for things like
>> meetings and calendars and such, including the 'feature' of being able
>> to automatically add people to your itinerary.)
> 
> <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.
> 
> </rant>

<rant>

is mozilla thunderbird better in 2021 with no shareing or dokumented 
ical icard or shared adressbook

simply is seamonkey worse then firefox ?

</rant>

imho its not just microsoft