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Written by Dan Goodman on 2025-01-16 at 20:38

Oh no it's finally happened. My university has disabled non-Microsoft apps from accessing Exchange, meaning I have to actually use Outlook. Nooooooooo! 😭😭😭

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Written by 阝日木卩由巾凡 on 2025-01-16 at 20:40

@neuralreckoning 😱😱😱😱😱😱

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Written by Stephen Royle on 2025-01-16 at 20:48

@neuralreckoning my sincere condolences.

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Written by Luka Rubinjoni on 2025-01-16 at 20:50

@neuralreckoning And Google is blocking K-9 mail for enterprise accounts. Sad.

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Written by Dan Goodman on 2025-01-16 at 20:56

@rubinjoni 😭

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Written by Albert Cardona on 2025-01-16 at 21:05

@neuralreckoning Can't you setup an email redirect? Forwarding rule?

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Written by Dan Goodman on 2025-01-16 at 21:06

@albertcardona yeah but it's going to be a heck of a hassle dealing with meeting requests etc. I might just give in.

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Written by Albert Cardona on 2025-01-16 at 21:21

@neuralreckoning it's surely nowhere in your contract that you have to use Microsoft products. I take a much rougher approach: ignore it all, have they bend instead. I have a lab to run and lectures to give, no time for failing software.

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Written by jonny (good kind) on 2025-01-16 at 22:40

@albertcardona

@neuralreckoning

Yeah I just set up an autoreply on my outlook work email like "I do not use this email, have never used it, and cannot be reached here. My correct contact information can be readily found via search." I can't even log in anymore since the duo is misconfigured and I dont care enough to fight with IT

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Written by Albert Cardona on 2025-01-17 at 09:34

@jonny @neuralreckoning

Plus now Office 365 bundles "AI" and raises prices.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24345051/microsoft-365-personal-family-copilot-office-ai-price-rises

There's nothing to do other than push back and stay out of the automated windbag machine.

I've just setup a custom filter for the email header "Received" matching "prod.outlook.com", to tag outlook-written emails in purple colour. Goodness, half my inbox is now purple. Half the emails going forward are suspect of sloppy AI text.

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Written by Paul Gribble on 2025-01-16 at 21:32

@neuralreckoning @albertcardona I am using Outlook just for that reason (dealing with meeting requests); had been using Apple Mail and Apple Calendar but it kept failing to show meetings, failing to sync mail properly (and not indicating that failure), etc. At least it's a nice way now to separate "work" stuff from other.

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Written by Warrick Ball on 2025-01-16 at 21:40

@neuralreckoning

I've heard that it might be possible to configure apps to pretend to be other apps when requesting the email data. It isn't easy and required various information to work, but I've seen someone configure unapproved Alpine (!) to pretend to be approved Thunderbird in order to get email from Exchange. 🤞

But don't gets your hopes up: I may have (a) got some part of the story wrong and (b) it might be different from your Uni's configuration.

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