Support MS Exchange Server Protocols (eas/owa/graph/ews) out of the box in Thunderbird

[TakeOne]

Support MS Exchange Server Protocols (eas/owa/graph/ews) out of the box in Thunderbird

MS Exchange is a very common solution for e-mails in companies these days.

To access your contacts, calendar, notes IMAP is not enough for a full PIM solution.

Even IMAP is often disabled in favour of more native ms protocols like OWA/EAS/EWS&Graph.

There is a variety of ThirdParty Addons out there to improve the situation, Exquilla, Owl, TBSync, et cetera.

I would like TB to implement Exchange compatibility directly in the core so that maintenance becomes easier and we can convince more users and companies to ditch Outlook.

This would be a unique selling point and improve the usefulness and userbase of TB by quite a margin.

[Jon]

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[wa4zlw]

I agree...a long time Tbird user and I dispise Outlook. The filters are terrible. I'd really a native solution as well.

Thanks leon

[Cellocat]

I too would love to see this. Exchange is very common in corporate environments and even if they support IMAP, that only solves one quarter of the issue (you've still got your calendars, contacts and tasks to think about).

Owl and TBSync with its Exchange addon are good solutions at the moment, but they're also quite clearly under-resourced, they'd benefit immensely from having their functions integrated into Thunderbird proper.

The notion of just being able to fire up a new TB install, enter your login creds and start rocking and rolling with email, contacts, calendar and tasks on Exchange would be such a fantastic experience.

[mahmoudk1000]

Are there any plans to integrate and further improve Owl plugin and related Exchange compatibility into future TB releases?   Many of us are forced to use O365 e.g. by employers but want to be "free" at least on the client side.  Other Linux email clients like Evolution or Bluemail do provide much better support today, but lack other features or are not open source.

[Jon]

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[dart59a]

Seems like every month when there's a Windows Update, the Microsoft Exchange email stops working for a few days through Thunderbird. Frustrating...

[dart59a]

I've been using Thunderbird with my Xfinity provided Microsoft Exchange account as a POP account with no issues until a few months ago. Whenever Windows Updates, it seems to stop working for a few days getting an INVALID PASSWORD error... Not sure why this is happening.

[wjdingdev]

I can't agree anymore!

To be honest, TB is very open and very good to use, also a lot of different mail access (POP, IMAP, etc.) and calendars are supported. I appreciate TB dev team a lot. The worst part is Outlook Exchange Server (OWS) is not open.

I don't like Outlook, and I have been using TB for tens of years! However, company uses Outlook Exchange and officially supported way is Outlook client and webmail. For non-outlook client, only IMAP and SMTP are supported.

Using TB can't utilize the calendar in Outlook and it was almost no good way to sync them. TBSync works for calendar but it's very limited.

If possible, I would like to see TB support Exchange as a native outlook client!

[dimas_sc]

I'd be very nice to have it! In our company we can't use Office365 mail with POP or IMAP, they force us to use Exchange, and people don't want to pay for an extension.

[TakeOne]

Full Exchange Support

We want TB as a full Outlook dropin replacement, without OWL, Exquilla and other Addons needed.

So you need to support EAS; OWA; EAW and Graph natively

[phrogpilot73]

#Thunderbird Exchange Support

I have a hosted Exchange server, and I depend on it for calendar/contacts/mail, and have used it for decades. The OWL plugin for Thunderbird is great, but I would like to see it be fully integrated into Thunderbird rather than a plugin.

[new23d]

This is a duplicate of https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/improved-exchange-o365-compatibility/idi-p/14794 and should be merged, including kudo count perhaps?

[new23d]

Ideas [1] and [2] are a duplicate of this. These should be merged and kudo count aggregated, perhaps?

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/full-exchange-support/idi-p/29399

[2] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/support-ms-exchange-server-protocols-eas-owa-graph-ews-out-of/i...

Office 365 (now called Microsoft 365) support will boost adoption through the roof.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[andy2]

I would love this!

It was pretty frustrating when TB 102 came out.

I use the flatpak version and it automatically updated and invalidated my 3rd party John Bieling Plugins TBsync and Exchange Protocol (bless you John for making those), and since they are mantained for free, it took a few months for the plugins to catch up, during which time i had to use something else for my email client as my work requires i be able to manage meetings etc.