From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 23 10:04:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA2EABF for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:04:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D791450 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au (unknown [192.168.0.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F11D15C22 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:13:03 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <51765ADA.4040304@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:56:42 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130205 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Thunderbird MCD/Autoconfig - functions not working? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:04:56 -0000 Quick question guys - anyone using the autoconfig feature of Thunderbird out there? I might have to either create something or add something to something else that will actually do the same job otherwise. I decided to give it a go and see if it might save some work on deployment, but the getent function simply doesn't work. I've submitted a bug report due to lack of support from mozilla themselves, but I thought I might check if anyone might be using it with the current Thunderbird. To get it running I: created an all.js with the general.config entries under the defaults/pref directory. created a thunderbird.cfg under thunderbird lib directory with a url redirect to a server using getent to obtain the username. It is set to refresh every hour (atm). What I get: Thunderbird starts and asks for account setup. (or an error message if I set it) with the NSPR_LOG variables set I can see it failed to retrieve the config with a http error. the server logs indicate Thunderbird attempted to retrieve the file but failed to offer a user so the filename requested is incomplete. Given the rather interesting background of this feature it might simply be a case of wysiwyg- and lucky for that; but I thought I'd query the vast resources here JIC. Cheers