Three Plugins You Can Use To Make Thunderbird Work With Microsoft Exchange

Now that I am using Bauer-Puntu Linux on my company laptop, I no longer have the luxury of using Microsoft Outlook which works seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange.

As many of you know, Microsoft Exchange is more than just email. If also handles contacts, calendars, tasks etc. out of the box, but Thunderbird doesn't handle that stuff. True, you can configure Thunderbird to connect to Exchange using IMAP over SSL, but that only gives you email and none of the other goodies.

That's why I am using the following plugins to make Thunderbird work with my companies email system which happens to be Office365, but that uses Exchange 2013 on the backend:

• ExQuilla For Microsoft Exchange - Connects to exchange using OWA and also syncs contacts
• Lightning - Calendar plugin for Thunderbird
• Exchange EWS Provider - Requires Lightning, but syncs calendar events with Exchange over OWA.

With those three plugins, I am able to use Thunderbird with Office365 without issue.