Please note that neither the LibreOffice developer team nor the Document Foundation gives any official recommendation for a PIM software replacement for LibreOffice. There are alternatives to Mozilla Thunderbird available, such as Evolution and Kontact. Like LibreOffice, Thunderbird is a free, open-source, cross-platform program. Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully-featured PIM tool. This comparison table has the objective to assist users in this search. LibreOffice does not have a PIM module and therefore users looking for a suitable PIM software need to seek alternatives for email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and chat features. This page compares the features of Mozilla Thunderbird 60 ( download) and Microsoft Outlook 2019. 7 Chat module: Mozilla Thunderbird vs.6 Tasks module: Mozilla Thunderbird vs.5 Contacts module: Mozilla Thunderbird vs.4 Calendar module: Mozilla Thunderbird vs.3 Email module: Mozilla Thunderbird vs.2 General Personal Information Managers: Mozilla Thunderbird vs.You’ll find Thunderbird works faster and more reliably than Outlook and is not as prone to the PST issues that can often haunt Outlook. ConclusionĪlthough it’s not a 100% feature-for-feature replacement, for anyone who can’t afford Microsoft Office or just wants an alternative to Microsoft Outlook, using Thunderbird with the ExQuilla addon is a fantastic way to get an email client connected with an Exchange 2007 or 2010 server. This new account should include all of your current emails, as well as your archives and subfolders in your Inbox folder hierarchy. ExQuilla will begin to pull down your Exchange email into a newly created account.
Click Finish, and the wizard will be complete. The window you will be presented lists the setup you just created.
Click the Manual button, enter the URL to the server in the Microsoft Exchange EWS URL field, and click Next.įigure C Enter Your Name and keep the two check boxes at the bottom checked.Ĥ. In the Exchange address setup dialog ( Figure C), if your Exchange server is configured for auto discover, you should be able to click the Do Auto Discover button, and ExQuilla will locate the server address if your Exchange server isn’t set up for auto discover, you’ll have to manually enter the address. In the first window of the wizard, enter your email address and password, leave Login With Email Address checked ( Figure B), and click Next.įigure B If the email authentication method fails, go back and use the Domain\Username method.ģ. Go to Tools | ExQuilla for Microsoft Exchange and then select Add Microsoft Exchange Account.Ģ. Once you successfully authenticate here, you can move on to setting up the account in Thunderbird.ġ. The credentials necessary should be in the form of DOMAIN\username and your Active Directory password. (Click the image to enlarge.) Setting up the accountīefore you set up the account in Thunderbird, you must find out your EWS address - it will be something like After you enter that into your browser, you should be prompted for your credentials.
After the install completes, restart Thunderbird by clicking Restart Now.įigure A After the countdown, you should be able to click Install.Navigate to where you saved the file and select it.Click the Tools drop-down and select Install From File.
Download the latest version of ExQuilla for your platform (Windows, Linux, or Mac).If this is the case, install it with these steps: If you install the addon through the Thunderbird Extension Manager, you will most likely wind up with an out of date version of ExQuilla that will not work. All that is left is to configure a new EWS account within the addon. I assume you already have Thunderbird installed and running, you have an Exchange account, and your Exchange server is either 2007 or 2010 and uses EWS. I will walk you through the installation of the addon as well as the setup of your Exchange account.
The setup just requires the installation of an addon and some knowledge about your server. Thanks to Zendesk’s ExQuilla Thunderbird addon, you can connect Thunderbird to your Exchange 2007 or 2010 server through Exchange Web Services (EWS). The ability to connect the Thunderbird email client to an Exchange server is finally possible. This option is fine for some businesses, but for the ones that want an actual email client, it’s been a challenge. The problem many smaller businesses have with this is that, without Outlook, the only option is Exchange Webmail. Microsoft Exchange is one of the most widely used email servers in the business world. Looking for an Outlook replacement? If so, try using Thunderbird with the ExQuilla addon to get an email client connected with an Exchange 2007 or 2010 server. Connect the Thunderbird email client to your Exchange server