The main clients or MUA(Mail User Agent) for our e-mail cluster will be
Mozilla Thunderbird and a web based program. I am currently in the
process of creating an automated setup for Thunderbird which will allow an
end-user to run a small program, enter some credentials and get a user.js
file generated and set up in Thunderbird’s Profile
directory. It is a bit
tricky as there may be more than one profile per user, but it ought to be
possible.
The profiler (as I’ll call it for now) will access a secure HTTP server,
submit credentials and retrieve a ready-made user.js
with all settings for
the IMAP, SMTP and LDAP servers. Unfortunately, the Windows Thunderbird
installers don’t include required code to use lockPref()
in either
prefs.js
or user.js
, but I don’t really feel like building my own
Thunderbird from source…