Apple, Microsoft Working to Fix iOS 11 Mail App Issues With Outlook.com, Office 365 & Exchange Accounts

[pesos]

He doesn't understand the numerous advantages of activestink (I kid, I kid). Great protocol, unfortunately marred from time to time by poor implementations on the client side.

 

[yoricardo]

Weirdly my Office 365 is absolutely fine on my iPad but useless on my iPhone and both are running iOS 11.0. Anyone heard of this?

 

[Tech198]

I wish Apple went into as much thought remedying these situations as they do with implementing Gmail into iOS as working.

 

[chrfr]

I wish Apple went into as much thought remedying these situations as they do with implementing Gmail into iOS as working.

I wouldn't imagine that Google has any incentive to make Gmail work any better on iOS. They're the ones who got rid of push support, after all.

 

[Michael Goff]

What is up with Apple and software lately?

 

[dumastudetto]

What is up with Apple and software lately?

Nothing. The marriage of incredible software with the best hardware is as strong and compelling as ever.

 

[Michael Goff]

Nothing. The marriage of incredible software with the best hardware is as strong and compelling as ever.

Mail issues
WiFi issues on watch
Stuttering animation on iOS 11
More battery complaints with iOS 11


And that's just off the top of my head.

 

[C DM]

Mail issues
WiFi issues on watch
Stuttering animation on iOS 11
More battery complaints with iOS 11


And that's just off the top of my head.

Mostly the typical complaints some would have with most releases.

 

[Michael Goff]

Mostly the typical complaints some would have with most releases.

Is that a way of dismissing it or that their coding has been bad for years?

 

[C DM]

Is that a way of dismissing it or that their coding has been bad for years?

Simply pointing out the established reality of software development for something like an OS.

 

[Michael Goff]

Simply pointing out the established reality of software development for something like an OS.

You accept the reality that the largest company in the world can't have a mail app that just works and doesn't regress performance in X.0 releases?

 

[Alkaid]

Not sure if it's been said (other than the 1 person mentioning Airmail) but I'm actually running into this issue when I try to send out email from an outlook account to any address whatsoever within Airmail. It just gives the one error of "Cannot send mail, etc" as well. Sending emails did seem to work on outlook.com (I haven't tried the Outlook app and I'm on 10.11)

I'll just use outlook.com for now but I'm hoping they'll tackle this here eventually.

 

[C DM]

You accept the reality that the largest company in the world can't have a mail app that just works and doesn't regress performance in X.0 releases?

Not accepting reality doesn’t change it.

 

[Michael Goff]

Not accepting reality doesn’t change it.

And not demanding more gets you no improvements.

 

[C DM]

And not demanding more gets you no improvements.

But also doesn’t magically create perfection.

 

[Michael Goff]

But also doesn’t magically create perfection.

So wanting them to not make things worse is demanding perfection?

 

[C DM]

So wanting them to not make things worse is demanding perfection?

Knowing that there will more than likely be some issues is what I’ve been commenting on.

 

[Michael Goff]

Knowing that there will more than likely be some issues is what I’ve been commenting on.

I'm okay with some issues, but not performance ones and not something as simple as making an email client work. Especially not in a nothing rellease like iOS 11.

 

[fairuz]

You're serious with this? Do you realize the features you lose? And POP was abandoned for good reason.

What do I lose? Gmail, AOL, iCloud, etc all use IMAP, and it works fine. Looking through the ActiveSync features, the only thing I see missing is remote wipe, which iOS supports systemwide anyway.
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Actually activesync is a fantastic mobile protocol. That's why google themselves licensed and used it for years until they decided they didn't want to pay for it any longer. It's far easier to configure (and, more importantly for businesses, support) than having to deal with imap/smtp/port numbers/auth settings/etc.

I've only ever entered server name, username, and password for IMAP settings. I don't know what the fuss is about. Things are probably more complicated if you use a host with weird settings like nonstandard ports.

 

[nt5672]

Well Jobs totally borked iOS 2 and mobile me. 2 was a nightmare upon release and mobile me was even worse.

Never said he was perfect, but I know for a fact that people that disappointed Jobs, did not do it a second time. Today, we get disappointment after disappointment from apparently the same people. The only difference, today there is no Jobs.

 

[WannaGoMac]

Meanwhile why is there still no patch to iOS 11?
Pretty big issue

 

[pesos]

Too busy fixing the watch LTE issue

 

[EW800]

I am impacted by this email bug. Anyone think we will see a software update by Monday or Tuesday?

 

[KOTULCN]

Besides the reply bug, I’m also having to re-authenticate my Exchange account all the time. If I login on my iPhone it kicks me off on my iPad.

 

[edwillis3]

What I have noticed is that a message sent as plain text seems to work but anything sent as HTML does not. I work with Exchange 2016, and noticed that I could send email as plain text but when I sent ones with an attachment or our signature that makes the email HTML based. The error occurs. For now unfortunately, I had to stop employees from downloading the newest iOS until this has been resolved. Those who did, I have make instructions on how to setup the Outlook app