[Users] Support for 'Exchange ActiveSync' Protocol

[Michal Suchánek]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 08:51:45AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:47:13 +0200, Paul Rolland stated:
> >Hello,
> >
> >On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:37:49 +0200
> >Michael Rasmussen via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:
> >
> >> As I recall your employer is a university and therefore you should
> >> take the above information with a gran of salt. The proprietary
> >> protocol EAS is not supported and will never be supported in any
> >> form or shape by Apple which means your university will loose 50-75%
> >> of its students.
> 
> Are you sure about that?
> <https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/apple-licenses-exchange-activesync-for-the-iphone/ba-p/587843#:~:text=Today%2C%20Apple%20announced%20they%20have%20licensed%20the%20Exchange,the%20list%20of%20mobile%20device%20manufacturers%20supporting%20EAS.>

They don't have to license it. Independent implementations for Evolution
and Thunderbird exist.

The only problem I see is that there is no general purpose library that
you could just integrate into any MUA and be done with it. The
thunderbird plugins are necessarily developed in and for some browser
API, and the Evolution plugin was for some time proprietary and as such
it is designed to support exclusively Evolution with no intention to
provide generic, well documented interface.

Thanks

Michal