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Best solution for Office365 with Thunderbird in 2020 : Thunderbird

Best solution for Office365 with Thunderbird in 2020
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I have a premium Outlook.com account (part of Office 365 subscription). Normally I use it with Outlook 365 (desktop program) and have for many, many years. Through all my testing and research I have found that basic Thunderbird cannot work with Outlook.com/Exchange without addons. At the very minimum I require:

  • Lighting calendar addon (technically it appears to be part of ‘basic’ Thunderbird these days)

  • TB Sync (this will allow me to configure and setup my Microsoft Account in Thunderbird)

  • Provider for Exchange Sync (which required TB Sync and allows me to sync my Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts)

Once those addons are installed, for me, it actually works quite well. And I can use Thunderbird on Linux or Windows without any problem. All of those addons are free and updated frequently. They also allow me to use other providers if I decided to change to Google or some other lesser known free or paid mail/calendar/tasks/contacts options.