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I recently discovered this add-on: * https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tbsync/ https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tbsy

by shmerl 8y ago

I recently discovered this add-on: * https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tbsync/ https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/tbsyn... * https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/eas-4-tbsync/ https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/eas-4... An actual working atcivesync support for calendar and contacts. With Exchange being still very pervasive in corporate environments, it's quite useful.

amaccuish 8y ago
Oh thank you! I really wish Thunderbird would support EAS/MAPI over HTTP/EWS. They're so widely used and it's irritating to have to use the memory hog that is Evolution.
- amaccuish 8y ago
  Update: works really well, shame it doesn't do email at the same time, but I guess it's a WIP. Cheers!
  - shmerl 8y ago
    Luckily in my case, I can use IMAP. But lack of calendar and contacts was very annoying, until I found this add-on.
  - anuragsoni 8y ago
    As an aside, if using IMAP for the exchange account (as @shmerl suggests) doesn't work for you, you might have better luck with DavMail [1]. I've used it in the past before my workplace enabled IMAP access for exchange mailboxes. [1] http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
- gerdesj 8y ago
  Are you sure? I'll grant you neither are particularly small but on this laptop a TB with no accounts set up uses more memory than the various Evo processes with several Exchange mailboxes open. Nothing scientific but a quick look at memory % in "glances".
anuragsoni 8y ago
I second the use of tbsync and the activesync plugins. I switched to thunderbird with these plugins after trying out the exchange support with Evolution-ews. In my unscientific observations, my memory and cpu usage was a lot higher when using evolution when compared to thunderbird. Although to be fair evolution had really nice integration with "gnome online accounts", but in the end I found thunderbird was good enough for exchange with these two plugins.
aembleton 8y ago
What calendar do you use? Lightning doesn't work with the latest version of Thunderbird.

by shmerl 8y ago

amaccuish 8y ago

Oh thank you! I really wish Thunderbird would support EAS/MAPI over HTTP/EWS. They're so widely used and it's irritating to have to use the memory hog that is Evolution.

amaccuish 8y ago
Update: works really well, shame it doesn't do email at the same time, but I guess it's a WIP. Cheers!
- shmerl 8y ago
  Luckily in my case, I can use IMAP. But lack of calendar and contacts was very annoying, until I found this add-on.
- anuragsoni 8y ago
  As an aside, if using IMAP for the exchange account (as @shmerl suggests) doesn't work for you, you might have better luck with DavMail [1]. I've used it in the past before my workplace enabled IMAP access for exchange mailboxes. [1] http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
gerdesj 8y ago
Are you sure? I'll grant you neither are particularly small but on this laptop a TB with no accounts set up uses more memory than the various Evo processes with several Exchange mailboxes open. Nothing scientific but a quick look at memory % in "glances".

anuragsoni 8y ago

I second the use of tbsync and the activesync plugins. I switched to thunderbird with these plugins after trying out the exchange support with Evolution-ews. In my unscientific observations, my memory and cpu usage was a lot higher when using evolution when compared to thunderbird. Although to be fair evolution had really nice integration with "gnome online accounts", but in the end I found thunderbird was good enough for exchange with these two plugins.

aembleton 8y ago

What calendar do you use? Lightning doesn't work with the latest version of Thunderbird.