580731 - KB article on ISPDB: add domain test

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozillamessaging.com Graveyard :: Knowledge Base Articles, defect)

Description

[jenzed]

Summarize the following and add it to http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/ISP+Database

On 10-07-21 10:12 AM, xxx wrote:
> I recently entered data for us (math.uni-bonn.de) into the ISP
> database. However, now I'm facing the problem that on our centrally
> managed workstations, Thunderbird will also pick up those settings.
> Internally, because users have already been authenticated upon login,
> we allow plain unauthenticated SMTP from those managed workstations.
> We would prefer Thunderbird to use that since people are used to not
> having to enter their password when sending mail.
>
> Is there a method to deliver different data from the ISP database
> depending on the IP of the client? Or can we locally override the
> entry for math.uni-bonn.de (but still use the rest of the database
> for external mail providers) in a config file?

Well, not exactly, but there might be a way to get it to work.

As of Thunderbird 3.1, before we check the ISP DB, we check:
http://autoconfig.<domain>/mail/config-v1.1.xml and
http://<domain>/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml
for the config files, so if you put a file with the internal settings 
there and make it only accessible from inside the network, then it 
should all work.

Comment 1

[jenzed]

New section was added: https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/ISP+Database#Can_there_be_multiple_different_sets_of_configuration_data_for_a_single_domain_ (with additional info from bwinton)