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What does it have with it being proprietary? They are doing it because tons and tons of people who would actually use a full email client also use Exchange, for
by mardifoufs 3y ago
What does it have with it being proprietary? They are doing it because tons and tons of people who would actually use a full email client also use Exchange, for reasons that are usually beyond the users control. You'd rather have them support something that much less people use or need for... reasons? Remember, this is an email client. Supporting or not a certain protocol won't make email servers support said protocol, not in any meaningful way at least. It would just make the email client (again, more of a niche nowadays) more irrelevant.
- blacklion 3y agoExchange is not email server. It is groupware server. Thunderbird will not support all features of Exchange, ever, as it requires much more than e-mail (and even calendar) support. And, yes, Exchange supports IMAP for people who want to use it as bad and feature-limited email server ;-) I want Thunderbird to be best e-mail client, not mediocre groupware client.
- mardifoufs 3y agoBut that's the thing though, does it lack support for any other open source groupware/email protocol? I see your point if that is the case