Autoconfig for connected accounts (or missing documentation?)

[Gabgobie]

Hi,

this might be related to #20 but I was somewhat unsure since #20 seems to focus on the ISPDB side of things.

I am looking to provide my users with the best possible experience using thunderbird and have already successfully configured the autoconfig for mail, however I was unable to find anything on thunderbirds detection of connected accounts => LDAP, CardDAV, CalDAV. I did find the MCD Docs but they only talk about configuring this using the prefs.js which is client-side.

I have seen thunderbird automatically detecting the contacts and calendars from gmail so I am somewhat sure that this feature is present.

Reading the ISPDB configuration for gmail didn't give me any insight into the mechanism used though.

My question boils down to:

• How can I provide "Google-style" autoconfig for my clients => not only mail but mail, contacts (ldap+carddav) and calendar?
• Is there documentation that I missed?

Best,
Gab

[Gabgobie]

Re-reading the sample autoconfig, I just found this line: <!-- For CardDAV, CalDAV auto discovery, the mechanism from RFC 6764 is used -->.

That would cover CardDAV and CalDAV. Unfortunately _ldap._tcp records are ignored and they wouldn't be sufficient for covering all settings necessary.

I assume that answers my questions in the following way:

• How can I provide...:
  • CalDAV + CardDAV -> RFC6764
  • LDAP -> only client-side settings (prefs.js)
• Yes

which is leading me to ask if there is any chance of support for LDAP configuration being added to the autoconfig.xml?

[cketti]

For Thunderbird feature requests, please use Bugzilla. Bug 454568 seems to be a good fit for this.

As far as I can tell, Thunderbird currently only supports automatically finding CardDAV settings. There doesn't seem to be any support for detecting LDAP settings.

[Gabgobie]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and looking into the matter.