User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; HTC U11) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.99 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/42.0.92.3330

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I would love to see support for Microsoft Accounts "Your Phone/Companion" feature in Thunderbird's "Chat Accounts" tool. This would allow me to synchronize my text messages and notifications with my Android device.

Original Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1809975

I'm unfamiliar with what this "Your Phone/Companion" product is. Can you link to something about it?

jebeld17 ?

In error, jebeld17 provided the following information on Launchpad instead of here:

@clokep-4
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459358/windows-10-your-phone-app-help
I believe it functions with Graph APIs, but I'm not certain for sure.

Paul,

Thanks for providing that link!

My quick summary of how this works is:

1. You install something on your PC and log into your Microsoft account.
2. You install an app on your Android phone.
3. You can view and send text messages (and photos) from your computer

I assume this works by bouncing all data via a server:

• To send a text:
  • The PC application makes an API call to the server.
  • The Android app gets a push notification and checks the server, then sends the text message.
• On a text being received:
  • The Android app makes an API call to the server.
  • The PC application gets notified and displays the message.

But I might be wrong, somewhere in the docs it says something about the Android device having to be on WiFi, so it's possible the devices directly connect somehow.

Thanks for filing! I'm going to close this since this uses a proprietary API and our intention is to support open standards in Thunderbird. Hopefully Thunderbird will support chat protocols via extensions again in the future (I think this is currently blocked by bug 1227973).