@maija worse is #MAPI which solely exost to enshure @thunderbird can't work with #MicrosoftExchange out of the box!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI

@silhouette @lil5 Oh, that shite...

• #Microsoft still refuses to support #IMAP & #SMTP instead?

Cuz I remember their #MAPI bs and #OWA being the only way to use #Thunderbird if the admins didn't allow IMAP & SMTP using a commercial addon...

@heinelo genau das sehe ich fundamental andersherum, eben weil jene #Monokultur ein Problem ist, sollten Leute umso mehr an offene Standards gewohnt werden.

#MicrosoftOffice kann problemlos #OpenDocument verarbeiten, aber #OOXML ist bewusst so designed dass es faktisch unmöglich ist dies sauber zu implementieren!

• Dasselbe gibt auch bei anderen Standards wie #IMAP vs. #MAPI / #MicrosoftExchange...

Wäre was anderes wenn Mensch zu "Fachsoftware" fenötigt wird wie :würg: SAP oder :kotz: DATEV...

@fuchsiii @ncommander #MicrosoftExchange is just so #cursed beyond reason, I'd rather #SelfHost my #eMail on a manually installed #Postfix & #Courier under #OracleSolaris or #OpenBSD instead...

#Microsoft's horrible, proprietary protocol known as #MAPI is a plight and before I'd even open #Outlook I'd rather pay for a commercial @thunderbird / #Thunderbird addon than to even look at #OWA or #Outlook to begin with...

And yes I did the latter in the past!

@thunderbird @clokep @matrix

Considering the fact that #Matrix's reference implementation pushes towards #AGPLv3 and is thus non-free and very restrictive to license, I wished for #XMPP+#OMEMO / XMPP+#PGP/MIME or #IRC or #Zulip integration instead.

But maybe that's me who found Matrix to be on-par with #Spack, #RocketChat, #Mattermost & #MicrosoftTeams when it comes to bad #UI & #UX.

I sincerely wish for said #Chat system to be either a dedicaded #App or modularized, but then again I wounder how much value it could add compared to #Gajim & #Pidgin...

Please fix the bugs and make Thunderbird better...
Consider buying up #Beonex or implementing proper #MAPI support instead...

@zulip @monocles
#Thunderbird #Chat