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Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog (blog.thunderbird.net)
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[–] -1 points 11 months ago

Boo, part of the reason I liked Thunderbird was that it was free of Microsoft influence.

Now inevitably the client will start making changes that accommodate MS Exchange and AD more than IMAP+LDAP

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    [–] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Did it...not have that already? I swear it did, but honestly I thought Exchange was dead long ago.

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    • [–] 27 points 11 months ago

    -looks at watch- Really?

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Great! We can get (almost) a whole year of using it with Exchange Online before EWS is turned off!

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    • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So Microsoft is going to ditch exchange soon?

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    • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I'm glad they have it but adding EWS support at the end of 2025 is nothing to brag about. EWS came with Exchange 2007, almost 20 years ago!

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but it looks like this includes support for organization Office 365 accounts, so it's not just something that only worked 20 years ago. If it only supported outdated Exchange servers that would be one thing, but it seems to support modern ones.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Microsoft announced a while back that the end of EWS is coming for exchange online which means M365 accounts. They will start blocking EWS requests from October next year and only support access via Graph API. I understand the Thunderbird team are also working on Graph API support.

    EWS EOL

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Sure but as @ApeNo1@lemmy.world noted MS is ending support for EWS in M365 in less than 12 months! So it took them 18 years to release something that still doesn't fully work (no Calendaring support, WTF?) and won't even be usable by this time next year.

    🤦

    If it only supported outdated Exchange servers that would be one thing

    The only Exchange server that ISN'T outdated at this point is the 4 month old Exchange Server Subscription Edition. All other versions are now EoL and have no support. So unless you have a very particular need to keep your EX environment On-Prem then you may as well migrate to EXO.

    If you are already using EXO then Thunderbird's new EWS support will stop working next October.

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    • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Awesome! Previously, Evolution was the only Linux client which supported Exchange, and Evolution is… well…. 😕

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Awesome. I really needed this about 5 years ago, but I'm glad they've added it for sure.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I've been using Nine as exchange client since 2014, it's working great. Didn't receive any updates in well over a year though, but that's hopefully because there's nothing needed.

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    • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I hate Exchange so much.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Better than just having imap (So difficult to sync contacts and calendar)....

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    [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Awesome news - wonder if this will make its way to the mobile release...

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    I read the article and still a bit confused (I'm no email expert). Is the practical benefit of using EWS? I've got a Microsoft account email, but it has been working fine, I presumably set it up with IMAP/POP?

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 11 months ago

    In practice many Exchange enterprise admins disable or restrict protocols other than EWS. This feature allows you to use Thunderbird anyways and will also enable calendar sync in the future, another often restricted part.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    My work Microsoft account doesn't work at all with Thunderbird. With my previous employer it did, but now my only option has been webmail.

    I really hope this fixes that. Haven't looked into it yet.

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    • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    They should also add support for Unified push. More apps need to embrace it! Currently there are no notifications at all.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Nice but id love if they supported jmap next.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    The absence of JMAP support seems even more strange when considering that the Thunderbird team is planning to sell email hosting with server software (Stalwart) that not only supports JMAP but seems to have a strong focus on it.

    The Thunderbird Pro team even made a blog post today with pictures for the Thundermail account dashboard, one of which shows JMAP info: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-pro-november-2025-update/

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    • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    The minute I no longer need it.

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    20 years too late?

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago

    The best time is always yesterday, the second best time is now. Let’s just be happy we got this much wanted feature without having to use a paid addon now!

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    • [–] -4 points 11 months ago

    I mean, weird flex but ok.

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is great! But I'mma need contacts and calendar before I leave Owl

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    Oh shit, that's huge!

    Edit: just read a bit of the article. Calender and address book still coming. So nothing really changes since I was using IMAP because. Maybe it'll be a bit faster?

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