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Re:Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird by jraph on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:22PM (#39242494)
> Now they're focusing on Exchange support when the best email servers on the planet have nothing to do with Microsoft?

Well, I guess lack of exchange support in Thunderbird might blog migrations to Thunderbird / Linux on the desktop in places using Exchange.

If users are already using Thunderbird, switching from Exchange to a regular mail server might be more easy: the UI doesn't change.

(now, I don't see many places using Exchange switching to Thunderbird, but that certainly opens a migration path)

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Re:Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:53PM (#39245135)
>now, I don't see many places using Exchange switching to Thunderbird,

Because you couldn’t.

There was a TB extension “OWL” but it wasn’t good enough for me, still lacked things like the contact cards with data from your Active Directory install, and other default Outlook features.

So the point for me is now you could take that path - maybe.

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Re:Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird by jraph on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:57PM (#39245994)
Ah, I meant I don't imagine places using Exchange switching to Thunderbird (in the future). Sorry for the confusion. But I don't know really.
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