Could someone give me a pointer about the usage of ActiveSync?

ovizii

I’ve been reading the manual for mailcow and found this page: https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/u_e-autodiscover_config/

which says:

ActiveSync should NOT be used with a desktop client

and was left wondering why that is the case as it sounds great at first so before I go and break something maybe someone has some pointers for me?

The reason why I even considered doing this, is because using a desktop client (Outlook) needs an extra app: CalDav Synchronizer - so my thought was, if I could use ActiveSync I wouldn’t need that.

ovizii

I might have found the solution here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/profiles-and-accounts/outlook-cannot-use-activesync-connect-exchange#:~:text=account%20to%20Outlook.-,More%20information,that%20support%20the%20EAS%20protocol.

Outlook supports the use of EAS to connect to other services that support the EAS protocol. Because an EAS connection doesn’t provide all the features of a standard connection to Exchange, Outlook doesn’t support this method to connect to Exchange.