Thunderbird works with most popular mail server applications, including Microsoft Exchange. ... You will need a few items of information from your mail administrator before you start: your username, password, domain, mail server name and address, port and SSL settings.
Does Thunderbird work with Outlook?
Thunderbird can be used as a client for all of Microsoft's email services (Hotmail, Outlook.com and Windows Live Mail, henceforth referred to as "Hotmail"). Thunderbird will download messages from the Hotmail server and store them on your local system.
Does Office 365 support Thunderbird?
Thunderbird is now configured for use with your Office 365 email account. Important: All of your folders will not automatically be viewable in Thunderbird. To be able to view all of your folders, see the section below, entitled “How to View Your Folders in Thunderbird”.