Mail and multiple exchange accounts

Hi,

should the new mail client in OSX 10.11 be able to support multiple exchange accounts at once? I have to use 4 all of which are held within the office 365 environment and having more than 1 active causes mail to crash on startup with a 'Root folder ID changed ... once an account is created, the root folder id shouldn't change on the server' error.

Disabling the accounts within Internet Accounts allows me to open mail, and adding them back one at a time allows me to have 2 active but restarting then goes bang again.

Deleting and re-adding them doesn't work as the Internet Accounts tool doesn't do anything once 'Done' is clicked after keying the details back in, so no chance of getting the system to recreate with an apparently correct folder ID.

If I try to deactivate the only active exchange account, I then get a message that 'Only one Exchange account can be enabled at a time' which I guess answers the question about multiple accounts.

Is this going to be enforced going forwards that only the one account can be active, or is this just a beta limitation? If this is a design choice then there will be a lot of people who need to access corporate mail accounts, or who use office 365 who will have to stop using the Apple Mail client.

Any suggestions apart from using Outlook?

many thanks,

Scott...

You aren't alone Scott. I had two exchange accounts active when I moved from 10.10.4 to 10.11 and now I have to follow the same steps as you do to get Mail to load without constantly crashing on startup with the same 'Root folder ID...' error you mentioned above. Sad that this functionality is problematic with their first beta. I'm sure a fix will be coming shortly.

Same here :-(


regards


HP

Same Here

Scott - same problem here - but even just adding 1 exchange account did not fetch messages on server - but it did show new messages arriving -

I tried MS Outlook and all the accounts stayed in place and it loaded with-out issue but would only fetch messages 1 time and that was it.

additional observation - when on batter in the lower left it shows mailbox activity - well while on battery it shows steps 1-2 "waiting for AC power"... but I can not seem to find any settings to change this. (still working with just 1 exchange account)... will not sync even when manually syncing...

I have now also discovered that I am unable to send emails from my exchange/office 365 account. This is not a very good email client in its current form and will not be at all useful to anyone in the Enterprise (who will all use exchange/office 365).

I suppose on the bright side it will free up a load of network bandwidth for Apple Music...

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