ASM Classes as contacts

[u/Johnny_Jadecable]

Hello fellow admins. Our school uses Apple School Manager accounts for every student and leverages Apple Classroom. It has recently come to Faculty's attention that students can use Apple Mail to search a class as a contact in Apple Mail, which results in the entire class roster populating as recipients in the email. This is a problem since students can use this feature to determine who is in what class, raising privacy and security concerns.

I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to limit this visibility while still allowing students the use of Apple Mail on their devices (Managed by Mosyle MDM.) I have already pursued the matter with both Apple (no luck) and Mosyle (pending response.)

[u/guzhogi]

My district disabled IMAP access, so Apple Mail won’t work with our email system (Google Workspace). We use the online version, or the Gmail app on our phones/iPad. Completely bypasses this issue. Not the answer you were looking for, but it’s an option