Or... just use the web app to check your mail. If you want notifications, this seems like a great use for PWA.
Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
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#12> On Android, there are tools that help prevent IT from reaching into your phone. If it’s allowed by your admin, you can create a separate “work” profile that contains sandboxed versions of your apps to avoid blurring the line between personal and work. The work profile can then be disabled on demand and flipped back on only when you need it, providing a level of control that iOS doesn’t yet allow.
This is changing with iOS 13 and the introduction of User Enrollment, which siloes off work data and adds restrictions to what corporate IT can access.
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#13I don't believe I ever actually accepted this on my iPhone.
But trying to search around I can't find anything about how to actually find out. Does anyone know?
I assume Settings >> General >> Profiles, but it is empty so not sure.
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#14Yes, if it's important to your company for you to be able to receive any of their communications wherever you are, they can pay for a phone plus service to give to you for that purpose. Don't let them use your personal phone for that.
But I still don't want to carry two phones.
Which is why I only redirect my company phone regular voice calls to the private one when I'm out of office. If it's urgent, call. If it's not, I'll get to it when I'm in the office.
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#15> you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it.
Say WHAT? That's the entire premise of the article. Any sane person who have even a vague idea of what a MDM is will answer with a resounding NO.
Is there actually serious companies who ask their employees to install a MDM on their personal phone? The moment you install a MDM on a phone, that phone is no longer your own, it now belongs to the company.
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#16At least if your org is on Office365 and doesn't have too restrictive policies, you can get your email over standard IMAP. There also exist some nice man-in-the-middle proxies which pretend to exchange servers that you've implemented the policies they ask for. I've got multiple "work" (one is a volunteering role) office365 exchange accounts on my personal phone, using [ https://sites.google.com/site/bikomobi/exchaine…
Experiences vary. Some stodgy F500's have IMAP and ActiveSync locked down in various ways that force you to run the Outlook app.
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#17Not sure how complete this list is, but here's Google's MDM knowledge base articles: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7036693
Mobile Reports: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6072773
Device Audit: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6350074
Mobile Alerts: https://support.google.com/a/answer/3230421
Edit: Furthermore, on iOS, you can go to Settings -> General -> Device Management -> -> More Details -> MDM Profile. The list of rights are listed there.
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#18> When you add a work email address to your phone, you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. (What other choice do you have?) I use the Nine mail/calendar app[1] to keep all that contained. It integrates nicely with the native Android apps but keeps all of the security and control options within Nine itself. It looks like they a…
Do you know if the Android org is cool with this? Like, is there an active arms race to prevent this kind of behavior, or is it condoned?
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#19I feel like most/many articles such as this are targeted at large enterprises/organisations. I've never been asked to install anything like MDM on my phone for any company I've worked for if needing to/wanting to view work email on my phone. But then I've never worked for a company who has more than around 25 members of staff.
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#20Yes, if it's important to your company for you to be able to receive any of their communications wherever you are, they can pay for a phone plus service to give to you for that purpose. Don't let them use your personal phone for that.
If it doesn’t require an MDM profile, I have no problem putting my work email on my personal phone. I don’t want to carry around two devices.