

The account name is something you can choose yourself, the e-mail is the address belonging to the account you want to add. E-mailĪdd the following add-ons to thunderbird:Īfter installation select in the Thunderbird menu, Add-ons.įrom the drop-down menu Account actions select Add new account and select Exchange ActiveSync. For calendering however we have to rely on a Add-on written for Thunderbird.

For the e-mail part we can use the standard IMAP and SMTP protocols. Office 365 provide the cloud version of Exchange named Office 365 Exchange Online. Exchange is a widely used email and calendar/address book service software.

With the Lightning plugin, Thunderbird can support calendar functions well. This document describes how to integrate the Open Source e-mail and calendering application Thunderbird with the Office365 product. Thunderbird is a nice email client available on Linux and Windows. Microsoft uses a lot of propriatary protocols in their products, which makes it sometimes hard to work together in projects. Server Name: Port: 993 User Name: your e-mail address Connection security: SSL/TLS. © 2020 Dennis Leeuw dleeuw at made-it dot com Office 365 and Thunderbird Office 365 and Thunderbird
