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Posted by babolivier 18 hours ago

Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support(blog.thunderbird.net)
355 points | 103 commentspage 3
spacechild1 9 hours ago|
Nice! I have been paying for ExQuilla because my university's IT department disabled IMAP and only supports Exchange...
shevy-java 11 hours ago||
Is this good?

This is a genuine question. I am not sure whether this is good or not.

It seems to only extend existing options? Or is there some trade-off?

cachius 10 hours ago|
This is awesome!

For one to have an open-source client to Exchange online and on-premise with broad support for more than plain email management. And also for other servers like Kerio Connect and grommunio.

Current limitations:

  Search & filtering
  Filter actions requiring full body content are not yet supported.
  
  Accounts hosted on Microsoft 365
  Domains requiring custom OAuth2 application and tenant IDs will be supported in the future.
  
  Accounts hosted on-premise
  Password-based NTLM authentication and OAuth2 for on-premise servers are on the roadmap.
  
  Calendar support
  Not yet implemented – calendar syncing is on the roadmap.
  
  Address book / contacts support
  Not yet implemented – address book support is on the roadmap.
  
  Microsoft Graph support
  Not yet implemented – Microsoft Graph integration will be added in the future.
pavon 5 hours ago||
I'm now aware of three protocols that Exchange has used: MAPI, EPW, and Microsoft Graph. Are all of these supported/commonly used in both on-premise and Office365 environments, are are some limited to one or the other?
jrm4 10 hours ago||
WONDERFUL. If it works, literally life improving for me. My browser slows to a crawl with the silliness like copilot on the side.

And at the risk of asking too much (because this was a thing we used to have as a plugin)...

...any possibility of color-coding separate accounts?

AndyMcConachie 9 hours ago||
This is wonderful. Thank you Thunderbird!
Onavo 11 hours ago||
Does it implement the famous "sweep" feature from Outlook?
29athrowaway 4 hours ago||
Microsoft could have effortlessly made it easier for others to implement integrations with Microsoft Exchange but they won't. They needed to make sure as many people as possible get vendor locked.

Imagine going to work, and having a meeting about how you can make it harder for your software to interoperate with other software. Or waking up in the morning and spending your day designing a proprietary protocol designed to prevent interoperability. That's just another day at Microsoft.

ConanRus 10 hours ago||
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Jeff-Collins 11 hours ago|
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drannex 11 hours ago|
Reiterating what another HN user said about this account:

You told an LLM to generate three possible responses to HN articles and then just started pasting all three?