Thunderbird/Enterprise
Welcome. Thunderbird in the Enterprise wiki is a community, and a place to get information about using Thunderbird in enterprises and large organizations. Topics include deployment, configuration, management, and discussion of important bugs and strategic issues.
You can help (and we need your help) by:
- Adding new information, tips and links, to this wiki page (click edit).
- Subscribing and posting in tb-enterprise to help other enterprise users.
- Helping with Thunderbird bugs, especially bugs important to TB enterprises.
- Helping in the Greater Thunderbird Ecosphere.
News and Discussion
- In 'tb-enterprise' community you can learn what others are doing, ask for help, and give help to others. (see message archive for past discussions)
- 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"!
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
If you want to deploy Thunderbird ESR and access the download page, please follow this link Thunderbird for Organizations.
We have gathered some articles specific to enterprise needs:
- Thunderbird in the Enterprise - DEVMO documents
- 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)
Solutions Providers
We are by definition a collaborative, open source project since inception, therefore solution providers are more than welcome to look at our code and make solutions we would not have developed. We don't have any certification process in place, but you will find a non exhaustive list of solution providers that can complete and/or facilitate your enterprise deployment.
New Wiki page with Solution Providers.
Articles
- Ideal Corporate E-mail Client (in Russian)
- Posts tagged Thunderbird and MCD by Dean Brundage.
- Manufacturing User Preferences For MCD (example title)
Mozilla Enterprise working Group
If like many other enterprises you are interested in Mozilla beyond Thunderbird, you will probably feel like to follow up what's happening within the Enterprise Working Group: