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<p dir="auto">On 7 May 2025, at 11:01, Dan Pritts wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">Of course they have no opinion on mailmate. That said our local Mac group is where I learned of mailmate, there are a few other users here.</p>
<p dir="auto">They refused to authorize fantastical oauth when I asked a couple years ago. I didn’t push the matter, quite possible I could have gotten it authorized if I explained it is a desktop client.</p>
<p dir="auto">Sent from phone, please excuse typos and/or brevity</p>
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<p dir="auto">In many cases these restrictions come about not for technical reasons, but for legal reasons. An institution I work with has a hard requirement for faculty to use only Microsoft Outlook on non-University-owned equipment (which means I don’t read email there very often.) The reasoning seems to ultimately be that, in the event something terrible happens, they’ll have just one entity to sue instead of (potentially) many. Faculty are on Office 365; students are on institutional gmail. Students don’t have this requirement (because almost all of their equipment is non-University-owned).</p>
<p dir="auto">Obviously this sort of situation is, pretty much, out of the sysadmin staff’s hands.</p>
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