esackbauer Thanks for the response!
I’m not a huge fan of activesync, but what I really do like about it is that the user has to provide their email address, their password, and the server name, and all the stuff is configured for them on their phone. Doing IMAP/CalDAV/CardDAV is what we do for my folks who are all IT techs and engineers and they can be trained to do that stuff. But the average end user changes their phone out at the AT&T or Verizon store whose tech thinks they can do that for them, and they inevitably screw that up.
What I’d love to see is a way to define some of those settings in DNS records that the phone could query for. A la: user puts in their email address and password, and the phone/email client checks for a DNS record that tells it all the settings. Think like autodiscover.domain.com was supposed to work. And the same for carddav and caldav. I do like how thunderbird just figures it out.
With all that said, I can tell you that the corporate user will never use Thunderbird as long as Outlook is a possibility. It’s literally the first question out of their mouths when I talk about switching off of MS Email servers. Once I reassure them that we can still use Outlook and CalDavSync, they calm down significantly. Even still, we’re talking about some legwork to get a workstation set up with Outlook that they don’t presently have to do. Again with the DNS records route, if it’s possible.
Thanks for your response!