1688059 - [autoconfig] Allow setting some account properties (mail.identity.identityNN.fcc, mail.server.serverNN.using_subscription)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Orion Poplawski]

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Steps to reproduce:

We have shifted to an Office 365 hosted mail server and find that we need to make the following changes to accounts:

• Disable "Place a copy in Sent" as the mail server automatically does this.
• Disable "Show only subscribed folders"

It would be very helpful to be able to put this into our autoconfig file.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

See bug 1668833.
These should probably not be in the setup file, but just handled elsewhere.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Hi Orion,

Let's see if we can help you here.

(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #0)

We have shifted to an Office 365 hosted mail server and find that we need to make the following changes to accounts:

• Disable "Place a copy in Sent" as the mail server automatically does this.

Corresponding pref:
mail.identity.%identitykey%.fcc
e.g. mail.identity.id1.fcc = false
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/acf322267fcb964b4a3f9a803e42855fa304977e/mailnews/base/prefs/content/am-copies.inc.xhtml#38-42

• Disable "Show only subscribed folders"

mail.server.%serverkey%.using_subscription
e.g. mail.server.server1.using_subscription = false

It would be very helpful to be able to put this into our autoconfig file.

I think this should be possible for any given pref using the traditional Mission Control Desktop (MCD) - Thunderbird AutoConfig and using lockPref(prefName, value) in your main config file, e.g.

lockPref(mail.identity.id1.fcc, false);
lockPref(mail.server.server1.using_subscription, false);

Please have a look at this documentation:

https://app.gitbook.com/@thunderbird/s/enterprise-docs/deploy/mcd-thunderbird-autoconfig

Does that help?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I hate to assume, but let's assume Orion was able to use your advice.

Comment 4

[Orion Poplawski]

Sorry for the late response. The problem with the lockPref() method is that it assumes that "id1" and "server1" are the appropriate id or server, which I can't guarantee.