539661 - Can't change URL for autoconfig configuration search - mailnews.auto_config_url is ignored

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[ulrike.burger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 SUSE/3.5.6-1.4.1 Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.0.0 final

Our mailserver is not named mail.domain or anything like that. So, auto configuation setup wizard tries possible mailserver names and fails. I tried to change the configuration search by this pref: mailnews.auto_config_url in file %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\mailnews.js
The configuration wizard just ignored it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change the URL in pref mailnews.auto_config_url at file %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\mailnews.js to something else.
2. Start a packet capturing software to get the URLs thunderbird calls.
3. Start Thunderbird without an existing profile.
4. Enter name, mail address and password.
5. After configuration search, switch to the packet capturing software and look for the URL you entered in mailnews.auto_config_url.
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird called still live.mozillamessing.com, not the URL I entered in mailnews.auto_config_url

Expected Results:  
Auto configuration setup should have searched for a working configuration at the URL in mailnews.auto_config_url

Comment 1

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

What are the status, type, and value shown for the "mailnews.auto_config_url" preference if you launch Thunderbird and go to the Config Editor?

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 2

[ulrike.burger]

Thanks for your fast reply. I got these values:

status: Standard
type: string
value before change: https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/
value after change: URL I entered in mailnews.js

Comment 3

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

I'm going to be a bit busy for the next couple of weeks, but I'll look into this as soon as I get a chance.

Thanks,
Blake.

Comment 4

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

I clearly don't have time to look into this, so I'm letting it go in the hopes that someone else picks it up.

Comment 5

[ulrike.burger]

The problem doesn't appear any more. So it's already solved ...

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

WFM per comment 5