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Autoconfig for Thunderbird

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Serpher
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Is there a way to auto config Thunderbird in a local domain so it takes mail (and maybe password from some field) as well as server details? Should I use .cfg or policies.json files? Info I found is quite old on that subject.

Is there a way to auto config Thunderbird in a local domain so it takes mail (and maybe password from some field) as well as server details? Should I use .cfg or policies.json files? Info I found is quite old on that subject.

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Matt
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There sure is, but it has not been updated in what feels like a lifetime.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration You might do better outside of the Mozilla world for your instructions though

This guy did the research for you and me. as he found the internet archive links. https://vadosware.io/post/thunderbird-autoconfig-for-your-self-hosted-mailserver/

This is where I suggest you do one of the following Make some XML available @ autoconfig.yourdomain.tld/mail/config-v1.1.xml?emailaddress=<some email> or Make some XML available @ yourdomain.tld/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml on your server and set up your mail server to utilize Kerebos authentication so their domain credentials will be used for mail access.

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