313507 - Thunderbird should be able to save settings to IMAP server in Settings folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84144

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[ggerard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

The use case is Thunderbird installed on many machines looking but using the same accounts. For instance, I have a home PC, a home Mac, and a work PC all talking to my home mail server through IMAP.

I'd like to have the option of Thunderbird to save my settings back to a folder on my IMAP server in a hopefully encrypted fashion. Then, when I get on my other computer or add a new account, Thunderbird would check for updated configuration information in that folder and all would be right with the world (filters would be consistent, etc.)

Bonus would be having machine-specific configurations so I could change, say the font settings, on my Mac without it affecting the PC installations.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This is an RFE.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 272706 -> Core bug 84144?

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84144 ***