[Dovecot] thunderbird sane config (OT)

[mouss]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 5/7/2008, rosenfield.albert at gmail.com (rosenfield.albert at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>> What I had in mind was more like:
>> 1. I install Thunderbird.
>> 2. I create an account named <template>.
>> 3. I modify TLS and other settings to work better.
>> 4. I click magic button.
>> 5. Thunderbird creates a new thunderbird_mycfg.exe.
>> 6. User downloads and runs thunderbird_mycfg.exe, which installs
>> Thunderbird, asks the user his/her account name and applies the
>> configuration from step (3), and everything magically works.
>>
>> Hmm.
>
> Heh... yeah, thats one of the things lacking in both TBird and FFox is 
> enterprise feature support like this...
>
> Its supposedly in the works though... and when it happens, you'll be 
> able to push it out even easier than you descibe above (assuming 
> you're using WPKG, Active Dirdctory, or something similar ...
>

you may want to look at

    http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Thunderbird_ISP_hooks
    https://spaces.mtu.edu/clearspace/docs/DOC-1403
    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration
    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat