Add-ons
Reviews for ExQuilla for Exchange
131 reviews for this add-on
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Exquilla randomly stops working on windows, and there is no reply to my support tickets. I *paid* for this addon, and I consider it a perfect waste of my money.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (31.0.1136).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It works great, and the price is very reasonable. It will be nice when the calendar provider is fully integrated. Without this addon I'd be stuck logging into Outlook web interface, which is pretty featureless on Linux.
As far as the complaints about it not being free, I don't see what that has to do with how good the add-on is. I prefer the donation request model, because it feels less intrusive, but I realize that can be impractical.
They could also give the user an activation key each year, so we don't have to create an account. I'm more turned off by having to give personal information, than by having to pay.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
It does not work for me... and I obtained no help. I've paid for nothing.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (31.0.1136).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I have to use an exchange email adress for one of my customers.
With this plugin i can keep all different email-accounts (private, office, customer,...) at one place (thunderbird).
8€/year for not having to login into a web interface all the time and keeping my emails at one place is definitely fair in my opinion, because it saves a lot of time.
In the free test period I experienced not a single problem with the plugin.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great add-on, does exactly what it's supposed to. I have no problem paying a tiny fee to support development of this add-on when there's nothing else available like it and no one else interested in developing their own. While it would be great if it was free OSS, devs need to eat, too.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (31.0.1135).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works fine in a corporate environment, author is quick on support, very easily worth the $10. Happily been using for the last year. The author is a Thunderbird contributor: http://mesquilla.com/2014/07/31/thunderbirds-future-the-tldr-version - I'd happily pay him to keep TB alive.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (31.0.1135).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
A great add on, worked first time and worked all settings out automatically, the guy deserves his $10.00. Barrie
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (31.0.1135).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been using Outlook via the webmail for some time, which is a huge pain. The webmail times out very fast, hardly anything can be configured, and it is crazy slow. Very bad for productivity. Then I tried Thunderbird with ExQuilla, and things work like a dream. My productivity has gone up immensely. I will do some more testing, but expect to role it out in the company soon. The costs are nothing compared to the productivity increase. Try it and you will see. I also tried DavMail with Thunderbird, this is much slower, but seems to work. You will need to run DavMail separately to get this working, which is not so nice in a corporate environment. Running DavMail on the server is possible, but will not work for people who bring their laptop home to read email.
Config: Thunderbird 24.6, ExQuilla 24.6
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I used Outlook for the FIRST time last week; it has not been a pleasant experience. I started using Thunderbird when it first came out and I like how that works a lot better. This plugin means I can keep using it.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (24.6).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
My company uses exchange, and lets be fair that simply won't change because I don't follow the same model as most employees.
In the past I've bothered reverse engineering everything and setting up IMAP, SMTP and LDAP to provide everything I needed. Now that I'm in a new job and after finding ExQuilla for Exchange, I'm stoked. I now work for a significantly larger company which means there is less ability for me to actually figure out how these systems work and more of an expectation that everyone will just use Exchange.
This addon is well worth it and I'm glad that my company will support this developer.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
FINALLY! YES!! I've been trying forever to get my Exchange e-mail account to sync in Thunderbird. I tried every option, every setting, and was constantly frustrated. To my great surprise, this plugin worked PERFECTLY and only took a minute to sync the whole account.
All I did was install the plugin, go to Tools --> ExQuilla for Microsoft Exchange --> Add Exchange Account. Then I used the Auto Detection options and let it do the configuration itself. It did everything right. The only thing I had to input myself aside from name/pass/email was the domain name--so it might be helpful to know that.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. This was on Windows 8. Solved a very difficult and frustrating problem for me, in seconds.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This integrated fantastically well with my corporate Exchange account; now I can use all my favorite Thunderbird addons and have the space saving ergonomic layout of Tb, plus ease of folder traversing "Next Unread Email" and tabbed mail; I don't even have to be on VPN anymore to manage my mail.
Connecting to the EWS server on Thunderbird Release was an absolute breeze, the price is really good and definitely worth the added comfort and stability. As a developer I can appreciate that this is actually not an easy task to pull off, and Kent even offered some support for a Calendar provider.
In terms of productivity, this is a huge win over the free browser access, the money spent on this was basically made back on in time on the first day.
Now if we could just have another addon that connects the Thunderbird UI to the server side filters (Microsoft calls them "message rules") ! :-)
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
After my company upgraded to exchange 2013 I was having trouble getting ExQuilla to connect again. While our IT department was trying to resolve a problem with a bad certificate being served I opened wireshark to determine exactly which host ExQuilla was connecting to. I then determined that it was using HTTP basic authentication to request the autodiscover.xml file over plain text and I was able to properly decode my password from the base64 authentication token.
ExQuilla did not even attempt an SSL connection to the exchange server for the discovery. This is unacceptable for the IT security policy and may even be the reason why the autodiscovery service was returning a 401 even with the right credentials. I now can not use ExQuilla for technical implementation reasons (it won't connect to our exchange 2013) and because it has been demonstrated to be out of compliance for our internal security policy.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
An excellent add-on. Works as claimed and I've been using it for almost 1 year on 2 different platforms.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (24.5.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I absolutely loath LookOut, and since the merger our mails have been moved from Google Apps to Exchange, that has a god awful webmail client.
So I much welcome this extension, though I'd preferred it to be in the core.
About the pricing, though I would've preferred a higher one time fee, over the current yearly model, it's really not that much to continue development.
5 stars from me.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
After installing the plugin, I was able to configure it for my Exchange account very easily without manual futzing. Auto-detection worked perfectly. In contrast, settings auto-detection did not work for my Android phone's mail app, though I *eventually* got that right. This indicates to me that the author has a much better than average understanding of Exchange and takes the plugin seriously.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (24.5.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It works. It connects (once one figures out the full URL needed to talk to office365). It makes e-mail possible when a client decides they are too good to use open standards and instead insist on using a proprietary protocol.
And $10/y is a pittance considering the alternative is to use webmail, or Outlook.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
ExQuilla is great addon and actually IS worth spending 10$ a year.
I'm also a company worker and of course I can use MS Outlook or web access for free. But because I prefere Thunderbird I found ExQuilla just the solution I need. It's fast, works fine and Kent James is doing great job to make it better. Why so many people think it should be for free? OWA is free - you can use it if that's your choice. Or you can write your own Mozilla Addon.
I have just purchased my license.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
As an home office worker i can choose my email client. Because my company use exchange and pay for it, and because i prefer Thunderbird, i found this FREE addon, and it's really great !.... My disappointment is unlimited because now, if i don't to want to change again my client, i have to pay for this addon !!!!If i prefer stay in a free configuration (i mean for me, not for my company), i should use again Outlook web app (it's totally absurd !!!! o_O' )Rkent, please reconsider differents cases, because most of workers using your addon, actually don't pay for the exchange server but their company do ! You should use a donation system at first to see what will happen. Workers are able to reward things make their jobs easier and better. But most of them are not ready to pay fees every year for their company (it's not an amount problem, but a philosophy)
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (24.5.2).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Worked reasonably well. My university has student e-mail on the same locked-down system as the hospital, so this was (I thought) the only way to get Office 365 into Thunderbird (or into Linux at all!). Unfortunately, it is buggy and the developer is caught between two rapidly-changing systems, Micro$oft and TB. TB upgrades often break ExQuilla. I also had occasional crashes and TB "hanging" in memory when closing. That, plus confusion over the free trial period, I bailed.
I have moved to using a DavMail gateway that was much easier to setup than feared and it works great on several devices.
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