thunderbird-conversations VS EAS-4-TbSync

You may have to wait longer for the Conversations extension to support Thunderbird 115. The extension developer has said that it needs significant changes and that he doesn't have enough spare time. The latest update on support for Thunderbird 115 [1] says that there's more work to be done and some dependencies on Thunderbird fixes.

[1]: https://github.com/thunderbird-conversations/thunderbird-con...

4. Conversations I have used for a very short time that extension many years ago. It seemed to work correctly (at the time), but I didn't like the feel of it, so I removed it. When you installed the extension, did you follow all recommendations? I am assuming you have installed this extension. Read carefully the Wiki to make sure you have installed it correctly. Check especially the addons that it replaces as well as the incompatible add-ons. From memory, when you install that extension, it tells you exactly what settings you have to select so it works correctly. if you haven't followed these instructions, then Thunderbird Conversations might be the culprit. Apart from that, since I don't currently use this extension, I won't say more about it.

2- With the extension Thunderbird Conversations Basically, if you follow the installation and configuration instructions found here and also the first time you install the extension, then it will show complete threads with both the messages you receive and those you sent. Even though it does exactly what it says, I didn't like the experience because I don't easily know where are really stored each message and there is also a difference where are showed messages when you start the discussion vs when someone else starts it. Besides, I am generally not a fan of the say a full discussion is shown in a message viewed in Conversation mode (and I don't like the way GMail shows it either).

What I mean is that if you have an Outlook account, and you want to use Thunderbird for it, you will need to sync your Outlook calendar with Thunderbird. Outlook uses Exchange ActiveSync instead of CalDav/CardDav for this syncing.

The way to give Thunderbird these capabilities are by installing these two connected addons [1, 2]. At least till June 2022, I could see meeting invites from colleagues in Thunderbird. I would also see the translucent event in the calendar in Thunderbird. But accepting the invite would not work [2]. Also creating and sending Outlook calendar events from within Thunderbird didn't work. So, I always had to open the web Calendar to do these things. Thunderbird was only good for meeting reminders.

There is a new major release of the addon since then, so it is possible that the bug is fixed.

> I apparently don't get event invites from Outlook Calendars then

Obviously if your email/calendar account is something else, then you have no problem. If someone sends an invite to my gmail, from their outlook, I can accept it fine from within Thunderbird, because Thunderbird/gmail are communicating using Caldav (I think).

> Which clients do work with that then, only Outlook itself?

I will use Thunderbird as much as possible till it is pried from my cold dead hands!

[1] https://github.com/jobisoft/TbSync/

[2] https://github.com/jobisoft/EAS-4-TbSync/wiki/About:-Provide...