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Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by ivanbakel »

What I'm most curious about, and what the docs are light on detail about: does this mean Thunderbird complies with remote deletion requests (which IIRC, the Exchange protocol suppports)? I have the impression that Microsoft makes this a requirement for Exchange implementations, which is why third-party devices and apps like Apple's Mail cooperate with those requests.

Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by bnchrch »

While its been a long time since Ive used Thunderbird, I just wanted to take the time to publicly say thank you.

Many HNers probably wont (or cant) remember the world of desktop mail clients but basically during the height of MSFT dominance there was only one real mail client: Outlook. Which Microsoft was starting to monetize heavily, ignore UX, and keep it windows only (cant blame them for that).

Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene, an OSS mail client that beat the pants off of Outlook in features, spam detection, IMAP support and a bunch of other things.

And it was free.

And you could use it on any machine.

This was a huge moment for OSS.

We owe a lot of credit to Mozilla and Thunderbird for rescuing us from a closed source world.

Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by seethishat »

ivanbakel wrote: post #2

What I'm most curious about, and what the docs are light on detail about: does this mean Thunderbird complies with remote deletion requests (which IIRC, the Exchange protocol suppports)? I have the impression that Microsoft makes this a requirement for Exchange implementations, which is why third-party devices and apps like Apple's Mail cooperate with those requests.

That would be Active Sync:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients/exchange-...

Not sure how Mozilla went about the implementation, but I do agree it would be a concern to verify before using.

You can perform the following Exchange ActiveSync tasks:

    Enable and disable Exchange ActiveSync for users

    Set policies such as minimum password length, device locking, and maximum failed password attempts

    Initiate a remote wipe to clear all data from a lost or stolen mobile phone

    Run a variety of reports for viewing or exporting into a variety of formats

    Control which types of mobile devices can synchronize with your organization through device access rules

Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by graemep »

ivanbakel wrote: post #2

What I'm most curious about, and what the docs are light on detail about: does this mean Thunderbird complies with remote deletion requests (which IIRC, the Exchange protocol suppports)? I have the impression that Microsoft makes this a requirement for Exchange implementations, which is why third-party devices and apps like Apple's Mail cooperate with those requests.

Do you mean recall? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/recall-an-outlook...

That only works within an organisation, right?

Otherwise you just get an email. I got one recently.

Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by briffle »

bnchrch wrote: post #3

While its been a long time since Ive used Thunderbird, I just wanted to take the time to publicly say thank you. Many HNers probably wont (or cant) remember the world of desktop mail clients but basically during the height of MSFT dominance there was only one real mail client: Outlook. Which Microsoft was starting to monetize heavily, ignore UX, and keep it windows only (cant blame them for that). Then Thunderbird ar…

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.

Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by kstrauser »

briffle wrote: post #7
bnchrch wrote: post #3

While its been a long time since Ive used Thunderbird, I just wanted to take the time to publicly say thank you. Many HNers probably wont (or cant) remember the world of desktop mail clients but basically during the height of MSFT dominance there was only one real mail client: Outlook. Which Microsoft was starting to monetize heavily, ignore UX, and keep it windows only (cant blame them for that). Then Thunderbird ar…

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.

Eudora was nice, but it wasn't available for Linux/BSD, and it wasn't open source.

Re: Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

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Post by ginko »

bnchrch wrote: post #3

While its been a long time since Ive used Thunderbird, I just wanted to take the time to publicly say thank you. Many HNers probably wont (or cant) remember the world of desktop mail clients but basically during the height of MSFT dominance there was only one real mail client: Outlook. Which Microsoft was starting to monetize heavily, ignore UX, and keep it windows only (cant blame them for that). Then Thunderbird ar…

>cant blame them for that

Of course you can blame them for that.

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