So how do all these other apps manage this kind of black magic? It’s clearly not impossible!
Repeating my general summary from previously:
iOS
- Native mail app
“We got this” - Spark
“We got this” - Outlook
“We got this”
Desktop:
- Outlook.
“We got this” - Mailbird
“We got this” - Thunderbird (via OWL add-on)
“We got this” - eM Client
How do all of these apps manage to do it?! Outlook sort of makes sense – maybe. But the answer given is that it is entirely related to the server side settings. I don’t doubt at all that that’s a factor, but obviously there is more to it than this because I have confirmed personally with each of the apps mentioned above with the exact same exchange server (I have since added Thunderbird / OWL since my previous comment) that they manage this out of the box with no additional configuration needed.
It would be really great if eM Client considered how this is possible and implement some solution as these others have. Maybe, in the absence of an announced archive folder, they simply look for a folder called “archive” and treat it accordingly. Who knows! But each and every one of the apps above has found a way to make this work seamlessly with all the same server limitations that have stymied eM Client.
Please, eM Client, just make it so already 