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Community Office Hours: Exchange Email Support


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Welcome to the last Community Office Hours of 2025! In this edition, Heather and Monica welcome Sr. Software Engineer Brendan Abolivier and Software Engineer Eleanor Dichary from the Desktop Team. We’re discussing the recent Exchange Web Support for email that just landed in Thunderbird Monthly Release 145. Learn how the team landed this feature and discover future plans for Calendar and Contact support, as well as Graph API

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
03:50 What is Microsoft Exchange
05:07 Why it took so long to add Exchange
14:33 Exchange in Thunderbird 145
18:20 Config options and authorization
27:10 Attachments and storage
32:30 Sync and folder operations
36:10 Filters and notification
39:10 Search
40:20 Feedback and bug reporting
43:00 Mobile and Graph API
49:09 JMAP and future protocols
55:50 Calendar and address book
59:57 Roadmap and EWS deprecation
62:23 Closing

Resources

Exchange Mozilla Support Article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-exchange
Exchange Mozilla Wiki Post (with call for testing): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird%3AExchange
Reach out on Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderbird:mozilla.org
Bugzilla (use Exchange component for reporting): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MailNews Core

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