Provide auto configuration for your mail services

When you use exchange with outlook then the client configuration works almost magically.
This is also possible for non-exchange mail servers.

The simplest solution is the new software called automx
Together with two entries in your dns you get automatic configuration.

The system covers automatic configuration for Outlook and Thunderbird (and all others using the same configuration discovery).
You specify what pop/imap/smtp services should be used and what ports and ssl/tls encryption should be used as default.

We at aarboard have now enabled this autodiscovery service for all our client domains.

How to do a smooth upgrade for Sogo with Thunderbird 3.x to 10.x

With the new thunderbird esr versions out now, we also got full support for the sogo extensions.
For giving the users a smooth upgrade experience look here:

http://wiki.sogo.nu/TB-upgrade-3-to-10

Building Thunderbird 3.1.15 for Ubuntu 11.10

If (for whatever reasons) you with to continue to use Thunderbird 3.1.x on Ubuntu 11.10, then you will have to build it yourself.

You can follow this guide, with a few exceptions:

Use the latest thunderbird 3.1.x (For example 3.1.15)
Then, when building it directly you will receive a few errors:

1. Patching os2.cc

--- a/gfx/ots/src/os2.cc

+++ b/gfx/ots/src/os2.cc

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@

 // Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.

 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be

 // found in the LICENSE file.

  

+#include

+

 #include "os2.h"

  

 #include "head.h"

  

 // OS/2 - OS/2 and Windows Metrics

 // http://www.microsoft.com/opentype/otspec/os2.htm

  

 namespace ots {

2. Add GC 4.6 backward compatibility option in your mozconf file:
export CXXFLAGS="-fpermissive"

3. Patch the makefile to use correct linking order

+--- a/mail/app/Makefile.in
++++ b/mail/app/Makefile.in
+@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ APP_XPCOM_LIBS = $(XPCOM_LIBS)
+ endif
+ 
+ LIBS += \
++ $(STATIC_EXTRA_LIBS) \
++ $(MOZ_OTS_LIBS) \
+  $(STATIC_COMPONENTS_LINKER_PATH) \
+  $(MOZ_JS_LIBS) \
+  $(EXTRA_DSO_LIBS) \
+@@ -185,8 +187,6 @@ DEFINES  += $(STATIC_DEFINES)
+ CPPSRCS  += $(STATIC_CPPSRCS)
+ EXTRA_DSO_LIBS += $(STATIC_EXTRA_DSO_LIBS)
+ REQUIRES += $(STATIC_REQUIRES)
+-EXTRA_LIBS += $(STATIC_EXTRA_LIBS)
+-EXTRA_LIBS += $(MOZ_OTS_LIBS)
+ 
+ ifndef MOZILLA_1_9_2_BRANCH
+ 

After these changes you should be able to build thunderbird 3.1.x under Ubuntu 11.10