Hello Meik, On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:57:48PM +0100, Meik Hellmund wrote: [...] > > I'm not sure if that is what you are really wanted to do. > > No, not really. All the preferences I use are defaultPrefs, not lockPrefs. > > But as far as I understand it, there is a difference between a .js and a .cfg > file. > .cfg files allow special commands to get config values from, e.g., an LDAP > database > (called the "Pref API" according to > http://web.mit.edu/~thunderbird/www/maintainers/autoconfig.html ) > > This seems to be quite poorly documented. > All I know about it is from web sites like > http://web.mit.edu/~thunderbird/www/maintainers/autoconfig.html > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MCD%2C_Mission_Control_Desktop_AKA_AutoConfig > https://github.com/interlegis/puppet-thunderbird/tree/master/templates > But it is quite useful in a centrally administrated environment. > You can get our mathmail.cfg file for the next few days from > http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund/mathmail.cfg > It takes the userid from the environment, makes a LDAP lookup > of the full name and the mail address for this userid and configures > the mail account. It works fine, new users on our Institute's network of > debian machines only have to enter their password at the first start of > icedove and > everything works.
o.k. now I understand partially what you want to do. Unfortunately I've got quite zero experience on that global controlled configuration stuff. But it's also possible that there is really something broken upstream. But if you have some time I will ask Christoph who can potentially can say something useful on that. But currently he is on vacation. So he will probably answer in the new year. Regards Carsten
