Karna@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoThunderbird's Devs: Rust Is Cominglinuxiac.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1183file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansthunderbird@lemmy.worldlinux@lemmy.ml
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Planned work for the 2024 release of Thunderbird.: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap
minus-squarehavuq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoI’m ignorant. What does native exchange support mean? I know we can get outlook/hotmail etc but is this more of the enterprise support?
minus-squareKarna@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-210 months agoHere is my understanding of it - Currently, TB uses POP3/IMAP protocol to access your Mailbox on Exchange Server. Ideally, it should be done via MS EWS Web API [1][2] which TB currently doesn’t support, but MS Office Outlook does. Given that MS Exchange is heavily used in corporate/company setup, it[3] will put TB on par with Outlook in that regard. [1] https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/Exchange-Web-Services-EWS [2] https://www.envisionup.com/blog/pop3-imap-microsoft-exchange-email-platform-use/ [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1847846
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoMicrosoft’s email service isn’t really following standards like IMAP/POP anymore and this breaks many apps. So they need to add support for their custom alternative system.
I’m ignorant. What does native exchange support mean? I know we can get outlook/hotmail etc but is this more of the enterprise support?
Here is my understanding of it -
Currently, TB uses POP3/IMAP protocol to access your Mailbox on Exchange Server.
Ideally, it should be done via MS EWS Web API [1][2] which TB currently doesn’t support, but MS Office Outlook does.
Given that MS Exchange is heavily used in corporate/company setup, it[3] will put TB on par with Outlook in that regard.
[1] https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/Exchange-Web-Services-EWS
[2] https://www.envisionup.com/blog/pop3-imap-microsoft-exchange-email-platform-use/
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1847846
Microsoft’s email service isn’t really following standards like IMAP/POP anymore and this breaks many apps. So they need to add support for their custom alternative system.