This is wonderful. Thank you Thunderbird!
Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
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Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
#62I like Thunderbird, it’s a great tool for private use. One killer feature I always missed (not sure if it exists today by default in Thunderbird), is the great calendar integration of outlook. I use the calendar a lot, during work but also to organize our family. It’s super important for me to able to send invites to co workers and my wife :-)
Since last year, TB has native caldav/carddav support.
Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
#63I like Thunderbird, it’s a great tool for private use. One killer feature I always missed (not sure if it exists today by default in Thunderbird), is the great calendar integration of outlook. I use the calendar a lot, during work but also to organize our family. It’s super important for me to able to send invites to co workers and my wife :-)
I've never seen a piece of software that managed to implement all of the iCalendar specification, which to me seemed like a data model for a good productivity app that's just never manifested. iCalendar (RFC 2445 from 1998) outlined not only events but todo and a journal component for memorializing meetings. Outlook seems to ignore VTODO entries in iCalendar completely, and VJOURNAL support is deprecated.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eudora was nice, but it wasn't available for Linux/BSD, and it wasn't open source.
Eudora was practically a CULT. I worked for one of their users who straight refused to use anything else, and one of my ongoing jobs as an admin was trying to get Exchange to play nice with it. It was maddening. I fired it up several times for testing purposes, I don't get the hype, but man, for some people it was just the best damn software ever made.
I've seen "The Bat!" pop up frequently in computer magazine CDs as well, not sure how widely it was used though.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the world of desktop mail clients We live in that world still. > but basically during the height of MSFT dominance there was only one real mail client: Outlook. On Windows, you had: * Netscape Suite (later Seamonkey) * Eudora * Pegasus and (edit:) two of those still exist. Plus, Outlook cost money (unless you used Outlook Express), while Netscape was gratis, and on Linux and most Unix variants, Outlook has never ev…
I loved Pegasus. Specifically because to move it to another machine you just had to copy the PMAIL folder and make a shortcut. No registry awareness, no dependencies.
Thunderbird and Firefox are almost as easy. Just install the app on the new system and copy the data folder over.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before Thunderbird, Eudora was fantastic. We ran it at a college I worked at for most of the staff and faculty, and it was a very sad day when Qualcomm shut it down.
I used Pegasus Mail back when I was on windows. I then used elm and later pine for many years until moving to webmail entirely.
Pegasus is still around, and still receiving updates.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still use Thunderbird and I love it. Even though I absolutely hate email and it is a chaotic clusterfuck we act like is bulletproof. I'm incredibly impressed at how feature deficit email is, but Thunderbird gives a lot of power back. It's just a lot of little things that add up. Like why is tagging and sorting so hard? But Thunderbird makes it easy, giving you as many as you want and let you label as you please. In…
> I'm incredibly impressed at how feature deficit email is . . . It's just a lot of little things that add up. Like why is tagging and sorting so hard? If you read the specifications for the various email protocols, you'll soon discover that email, at the protocol level, is at its most feature-rich akin to flat files stored in a hierarchy of folders. Tags, sorting, etc. are all the responsibility of clients. (Which i…
Fair, but I think you missed the forest for the trees. You're right that I could be more clear but you also seem to understand that in context I'm discussing clients.
Nothing I've discussed has to do with protocol and everything has to do with clients, which is also in the context of what Thunderbird is. So I'm not sure why you're bringing up protocols as no one was discussing it until you brought it up.
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#68Nice! I have been paying for ExQuilla because my university's IT department disabled IMAP and only supports Exchange...
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#69So far this extension was a solution for accessing Mail-Accounts hosted on Exchange and even O365 by using OWA in a miraculous manner. It‘s not easy to overlook how this compares for simple end-user.
Owl for Thunderbird https://reviewers.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/a...
Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
#70The lack of native Microsoft Outlook support was one of the reasons I've abandoned Thunderbird.
However, it is still not enough for me to come back. Sadly, corporate life is often organised around email and calendaring. All these endless meetings everyone complains about, which need to be scheduled, accepted, rejected, re-scheduled, etc. The native Exchange support does not yet support Calendar integration. Without it, it will be very awkward to use in a day-to-day corporate environment.