Exchange ActiveSync (AES) in Mavericks

knird wrote:

Csound1, you sent me an insulting email accusing me of attempting to steal software, and left me no way to respond. You don't know me. I was not attempting to steal anything, and I resent your accusation and your tone.

I sent you no emails.

And whether you agree or not; soliciting others to give you copies of their software results (if followed) in theft. You really should not ask others to do that for you.

What, expecting Microsoft to treat Mac users on an equal footing to Windows users, guilable or what. 😉

Use either iCloud (free) with Calendar and Contacts support, or GMail (free) with also Calendar and Contacts support, or use Outlook.com and get treated like something you scrape off the bottom of your shoe.

Technically you posted a nasty message that was emailed to me because of my settings, but then you deleted it so no one else could see it.

Shorthand, you emailed me.

The new version of Outlook for Mac, released today, amazingly does not support Outlook.com. I bought it and then returned it. Absolutely unbelievable. I came back here to correct my previous recommendation to buy it.

Outlook 2013 doesn't fully support Outlook.com, either (as I understand it). I'm running Outlook 2010 on a Parallels installation of Windows 7, and the support for Outlook.com is comparable. Both use MAPI to synchronize mail, calendar, tasks, etc. But neither let you choose the "from" address, which is critical for me. I'm self-employed, and I have multiple email addresses - personal and work.

To the best of my knowledge, there are only two email clients that let you select the "from" address: Outlook.com for Android (which uses EAS for synchronization), and the native email application that comes with Windows 8 and higher.

I'm getting such a headache from this whole thing, I'm going to try out Gmail to see if there's any pain relief in that direction, though it's an inferior product.

It's so frustrating that Symantec pulled Touchdown from the market just a month ago. If I'd started this research just a few weeks earlier, I'd have it. I'd pay double retail to have Touchdown for Mac OS - I really would. I'd pay it to any of you here, I'd pay it to Symantec, I'd pay it to the company that Symantec bought. I'd pretty desperate to resolve this situation. I'm not looking to steal anything, oh righteous one who sends me nasty messages (you know who you are).

knird28 on outlook.com

I did not delete my post, it was a reply to your request to a stranger to steal software on your behalf. It was deleted when the original request was deleted.

No matter how you try to spin it your post made your request very clear.

Whatever. I sure wish you'd stop characterizing me as a thief. You are twisting what I said by mischaracterizing my motives. This is slander. What you are doing is way worse - and more clearly illegal - than what I did.

Steven W. Buehler wrote:

According to a leaked presentation from Microsoft, Office 2015 is supposed to have feature parity with its Windows counterpart. Apparently not.

As I said guilable 😉

Word for Mac still does not support right to left languages like Arabic and Hebrew unlike Word for Windows and even the free built-in Text Edit on a Mac. I have no expectation that Word 2015 for Mac will change this.

Are you denying that you asked another poster here to send you a copy of his software? (Touchdown for Mac)

Yes or no

To be clear here, ActiveSync is an OPEN protocol.

Microsoft has added a few bits, but its basically the same. Also not only Microsoft use this MDaemon does as well, so not sure why Apple dont have this on the OSX platform.....

Outlook 2013 (for WIndows) will do ActiveSync, however will not connect to Exchange server, it will connect to Outlook 365 AND MDAEMON which is a reval email server, so they filtered out there own Exchange server making Outlook 2013 working with there rival MDaemon but not there own product.

Weird.

So to sum up, there doesn't appear to be any reason why Apple doesn't have Active Sync on OSX, other mail servers use it, they could filter Exchange out to keep microsoft happy if they wished, however your blocked other mail servers such as MDaemon (which more people are using, its cheaper and logs everything).