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5 years ago

Summary: ADD - Group Policy Files for thunderbird v68+ → Add Group Policy Files for thunderbird v68+

https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/enterprisepolicies/Policies.jsm

Reporter

Comment 1

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5 years ago

mkaply's comments taken for reference
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/issues/434

quote:
This should be a very straightforward thing to do based on looking at the policy code that is in Thunderbird. They should be able to take the Firefox policy files and make a couple changes and that's it.
You can see what policies were implemented for Thunderbird here:
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/enterprisepolicies/schemas/policies-schema.json

Right now they only have copied over some Firefox policies. There is nothing unique for thunderbird.
The policies themselves are created by adding the schema to that file and then implementing the policy code in:

Reporter

Comment 2

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5 years ago

From an enterprise point of view. i was so excited to finally see Group Policy Support added to TB 68.
Hunting for any information on the admx files or documentation...failed. Only to find out the engine was only ported over from FF and no actual polices added or any unique to TB management. :(

I think it is vital for this feature, if you wish for TB to gain ground in the commerical environment, configuration from a central place is needed.

autoconfig can handle the setup of email settings (xml, Mozilla ISPDB etc), but doesnt do any more than connection settings.
MCD? is this deprecated?? documentation/scripts seems very old.

the new GPO policy templates need to handle the "options settings" and also "email account settings"

for example, i have 2 imap accounts.
-For account 1 i wish to only sync emails <30days old.
-For account 2 i want to completely disable sync. and only on demand viewing of emails.

Can this be done via Group Policy?
when you got 100+ PCs manually setting this is a pain.

Reporter

Comment 3

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5 years ago

Does a github repository need setting up for the development of Thunderbird policy files?

or add a repository to thundernest??? https://github.com/thundernest

or keep Thunderbird's policy files with FF??? https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

Comment 4

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5 years ago

We'd put them under thundernest. Just a moment. Will set that up.

Comment 5

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5 years ago

Added https://github.com/thundernest/policy-templates/ - do send PRs, it's just a fork from Firefox atm.

Comment 6

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5 years ago

So yeah, we only do (the applicable parts of) Firefox policies yet. Open to adding more, but we didn't have time, and not sure what would be desired either, so input welcome.

Configuring per-account sounds hard to specify as a policy. And for autoconfig, I'm not sure it's not easier to just deploy that through other means

Comment 7

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5 years ago

https://github.com/drlellinger/thunderbird-policies This is Work in Progress - i will make a Pull request as soon the Windows policies are finished. Do not copy them and use them as your work please.

Reporter

Comment 8

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5 years ago

think you mean this?
https://github.com/drlellinger/policy-templates

Comment 9

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5 years ago

No, i meant https://github.com/drlellinger/thunderbird-policies

I set them to private because of existing bugs which i will get rid off in the upcoming days. Also there is this bug i discovered while testing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579019

Comment 10

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5 years ago

The repository you were refering to is targeted to the Firefox.

Comment 11

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5 years ago

Reopened, Policies are working

Reporter

Comment 12

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5 years ago

Is there a list of thunderbird options? so we are pick the most useful one for the policy?

@magnus, how else can you deploy thunderbird in the enterprise? all i can see is:

autoconfig for account connection settings. and this policy templates?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

theres the Mission Control Desktop, but that looks very old.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Misc_top_level/MCD,_Mission_Control_Desktop_AKA_AutoConfig

how else can you configure options and account settings for deployment?

Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)

Comment 13

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5 years ago

(In reply to Solway from comment #12)

Is there a list of thunderbird options? so we are pick the most useful one for the policy?

You can look around in the config editor... but. I'd look at it more from your needs, instead of what's available.

@magnus, how else can you deploy thunderbird in the enterprise? all i can see is:

autoconfig for account connection settings. and this policy templates?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

theres the Mission Control Desktop, but that looks very old.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Misc_top_level/MCD,_Mission_Control_Desktop_AKA_AutoConfig

how else can you configure options and account settings for deployment?

Would be great to get this documentation updated and put onto developer.thunderbird.net. I think while old, both those pages are still correct and working.

Updated

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5 years ago

Blocks: tb-policies

AMJones

Comment 14

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5 years ago

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #13)

theres the Mission Control Desktop, but that looks very old.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Misc_top_level/MCD,_Mission_Control_Desktop_AKA_AutoConfig

how else can you configure options and account settings for deployment?

Would be great to get this documentation updated and put onto developer.thunderbird.net. I think while old, both those pages are still correct and working.

Some of the MCD method seems to have gone awry in Thunderbird 68 vs. 60.0.8, specifically involving processLDAPValues. I do not know if this is related to the addition of the policy template features, or some other difference between the two versions. I could not find any documentation citing a change, but as you have mentioned that documentation is ancient.

Comment 15

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4 years ago

The official policy templates available at
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/releases
still do not contain policy templates for Thunderbird.

In the fork at https://github.com/thundernest/policy-templates/
the readme.md was changed 11 months ago to speak about Thunderbird but the actual templates in the fork are still only for Firefox.

When will policy templates for Thunderbird be available?

Comment 16

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4 years ago

As mentioned above I have created a policy set for Thunderbird here:
https://github.com/drlellinger/thunderbird-policies

Comment 17

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4 years ago

(In reply to drlellinger from comment #16)

As mentioned above I have created a policy set for Thunderbird here:
https://github.com/drlellinger/thunderbird-policies

Thank you very much for your effort, but I still would like to know
when official policy templates for Thunderbird will be available that support all the configurable options
mentioned in the policies-schema.json ?

cn

Comment 18

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3 years ago

Is there any work on this? The current policy templates from drlellinger do not work anymore for deploying extension.

Comment 19

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3 years ago

I made working Thunderbird policy templates by taking the official Firefox templates from
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/
and renamed every occurrence of "Firefox" in "Thunderbird" and every "FF" in "TB".

This worked for the settings I needed but I didn't test all of them of course.

You can find my modified templates here:
https://github.com/int-red/thunderbird-policy-templates