It is, and shouldn't be any different to any other web-mail... in theory. Our corporate mail is only exported via OWA (Outlook Web Access) and I'd love to be able to get my mail and calendars in Thunderbird and Lightning instead of Lookout, both in work and at home.
There are at least 2 solutions I know of to proxy those servers to a local POP mail server. The most simplest is POP2OWA. (http:// www.pop2owa.com/en/index.php) But DavMail should work and should even be more comprehensive. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/) (DavMail should interpret Calendars into iCal format, and the Exchange address-book from OWA into a standard LDAP directory server) We've been through a couple of OWA upgrades, and every OWA update totally changes everything, just like every new version of Outlook or MS Office. >:E Additional problems with OWA include the fact that full featured access to it is only possible via Microsoft Internet Explorer. So you can read your mail in Firefox (or any other competing browser) but only IE will allow you to do things like... change the font, or alignment or text colour... and the arrangement of controls makes selecting, moving, arranging mail etc very difficult, if they are even possible at all, unless you are using the Microsoft IE web engine. (yea, okay... browsers like Maxthon which use the IE engine in a skinned window work okay too) So, you have all the features and ease of use of Pine, with none of the simplicity and plain text mails. (ie. you still send HTML / RichText emails, but can't actually apply any formatting to pretty the text up... what a waste) I presume that Thunderbird Webmail Extension will utilize the Geko engine which is already available in the Mozilla suite, and therefore lack such extended features. But even so, just getting mail into Thunderbird would make the managing of my in-box much easier. :D Whatever the limitations, I would heartily advocate this extension in functionality. ;)
