Thunderbird/Enterprise

Welcome. Thunderbird in the Enterprise wiki is a community, and a collection of information related to use of Thunderbird in enterprises and large organizations.

You can help by adding information (tips and links) to this wiki page (click edit), or by subscribing and posting in tb-enterprise.

News and Discussion

• 'tb-enterprise' is a community where you can learn what others are doing, ask for help, and give help to others. message archive
• Mozilla Messaging Planet - Thunderbird team's various blogs. Links to Thunderbird staff and contributors blogs can be found in the right sidebar of the home page if you want to avoid the Planet Mozilla "firehose"!

Enterprise related Key Bugs in Bugzilla

If you want to look at enterprises related bugs, please visit

• bug tb-enterprise aka bug 564148, it is for bugs of special importance to enterprises.

To get notices of progress as the bugs are fixed, and as new bugs are added, you should subscribe (Cc) to the meta bug. A meta bug is not for 'work' or discussion. Development of solutions occurs in the bugs which are linked to the meta.
If you want to submit an enterprise related bug, please add "enterprise" bugs to the meta so that they get proper attention, after carefully reading the criteria for blocking [1], [2].

Deployment

We have gathered some articles specific to enterprise needs:

• Thunderbird in the Enterprise - DEVMO documents
  • Deploying Thunderbird in the Enterprise - DEVMO documents
  • Upgrading Thunderbird in the Enterprise
  • Preferences Relevant to Enterprises
• Account Autoconfig
  • New - Account Autoconfig (replaces RDF as of version 3)
  • Original - MCD, Mission Control Desktop AKA AutoConfig
• Software_Update and Software_Update:Testing
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_3.1_-_New_Features_and_Changes
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_3.0_-_New_Features_and_Changes
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_3.0_installation_issues (some of these issues are mitigated in version 3.1)

Articles

• Ideal Corporate E-mail Client (in Russian)
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Thunderbird_Post_3.1_Plan
• Posts tagged Thunderbird and MCD by Dean Brundage.
  • Manufacturing User Preferences For MCD (example title)
• Certificate Management
• Thunderbird and Institutional users

Other References

• Thunderbird Home - Information about releases, development, communications, ...
• General Thunderbird Support
• Enterprise Wishlist
• Enterprise Working Group (EWG)