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Owl is still the best option as far as I am aware.

https://www.beonex.com/owl/

Bummer on the model. Would be really nice if I could just pay some amount, say $100, to get access to the source and the extension.

For some things I guess I don't mind closed source from a small company, but my company mail probably isn't one of them.

You get the source ... technically. You can unzip the XPI and you'll have all the code there.

Interesting. Do you know then how it enforces subscription?

There's a licensing server and users seem to be identified by the email addresses they use Owl with. At a glance it seems like it checks for a valid license every once in a while. The code that does it has a couple paragraphs at the top saying something along the lines of "yeah it's all here, there's nothing stopping you from stripping it but please don't redistribute it then because it's my livelihood thank you."

Thanks. Very cool, that's basically the model I was hoping for (that or open source with some identifying watermark per install). I'll give it a look.

> Cheap, 2 coffees per year

Price: 10€. Starbucks really did a lot of damage here. 2 coffees should be 3€, not 10.

The coffee is cheap. It's the milkshake, chocolate drizzle and whipped cream they add to it that adds to the costs.

Probably correct. I only ever drink coffee black with no sugar and I can't ever being surprised the few times I got my coffee at a Starbucks.

Yes, but I was more complaining bout how the concept of "Starbucks coffee" took over the "coffee cup" concept.

The site is not clear, but if it's server-side, it's a non-starter for pretty much everyone. Do you know where it runs?

It's a client-side extension for Thunderbird. It works extremely well, in my experience.

It's client-side, and works very well for email. It used to be that email notifications through Thunderbird waited until your next email refresh interval, but I noticed they are coming in at the same rate as the Outlook clients after the last update to Owl.

Calendaring through Lightning is incomplete and experimental.

In the "spaces" vertical toolbar on the left, Owl has added a Teams button recently, as well. It opens the Teams O365 app in a tab in Thunderbird, which I really like. I haven't had a chance to check if any meeting or audio features work there.

I've used Owl with Thunderbird to connect to Exchange in the past, I'll vouch for it as well.

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