Thunderbird 145 has been launched with full native assist for Microsoft Trade electronic mail through the Trade Net Providers (EWS) protocol.
Because of this Thunderbird customers in Microsoft Trade environments (e.g., Microsoft 365, Workplace 365) now not want third-party add-ons and profit from seamless message synchronization and folder administration regionally and on the server.
Migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird can also be simpler, as Mozilla’s electronic mail shopper robotically detects the settings and makes use of Microsoft’s OAuth2 authorization protocol.
“Till now, Thunderbird customers in Trade-hosted environments typically relied on IMAP/POP protocols or third-party extensions,” reads Thunderbird’s announcement.
“With full native Trade assist for electronic mail, Thunderbird now works extra seamlessly in Trade environments, together with full folder listings, message synchronization, folder administration each regionally and on the server, attachment dealing with, and extra.”
Thunderbird is a free, open-source electronic mail software developed by Mozilla, and Microsoft Trade is an electronic mail and collaboration server broadly utilized by companies to deal with communications, calendars, and contacts.
Usually, organizations both use Outlook as the e-mail shopper app to connect with an Trade server or the Microsoft 365 cloud service. Nonetheless, any app with EWS assist, now together with Thunderbird, can connect with it.
To maneuver from Outlook to Thunderbird, customers have so as to add the account in model 145 or later of the e-mail shopper, head to Account Hub > Trade/Trade Net Providers, and let the applying information them by way of the remainder of the method.
Supply: Mozilla
At the moment, the next options are supported:
- Trade electronic mail setup and folder entry
- Viewing, sending, replying/forwarding, transferring/copying/deleting messages
- Attachments (save, show, detach/delete)
- Search (topic, physique) and fast filtering
- Microsoft 365 domains utilizing normal OAuth2
- On-premise Trade with fundamental password authentication
The Thunderbird improvement group additionally plans so as to add assist for Calendar syncing, Handle e book/contacts, Filter actions requiring full-message content material, Microsoft 365 domains requiring customized OAuth2 app/tenant IDs, On-premise NTLM and OAuth2 authentication, and Microsoft Graph integration.
No particular timelines have been offered for when these will land on Thunderbird, and implementation instances could range per merchandise.
Mozilla notes that EWS continues to be extensively used, and Microsoft has promised to proceed supporting it “for the foreseeable future,” even because the tech large is transitioning to the Microsoft Graph interface as the primary technique to connect with Microsoft 365 providers.
Whereas assist for the Microsoft Graph API is within the plans, the Thunderbird group considers EWS a precedence proper now to satisfy the wants of a bigger person base.
Extra details about Thunderbird’s Trade assist is obtainable on this wiki web page, whereas the assist portal gives directions for account porting.
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