How to lock user preferences in thunderbird mail profiles
Thunderbird-Version: 52.8.0 (64-Bit) on Archlinux (up-to-date)
Hello, we'd like to use thunderbird as the mail and calendar client in our non-profit organisation. The whole network consists only of linux servers and workstations running archlinux. To prevent our users from changing some of the settings in the mail client (especially a mail BCC to our mail archive) I read about locking preferences here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
I then created a file local-settings.js with the content:
pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg"); pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
and copied it to /usr/lib/thunderbird/default/pref
after that i created file mozilla.cfg with the content:
// Don't allow to edit bcc to mail archive lockPref("mail.identity.id7.doBccList", archive@xxx.de); lockPref("mail.identity.id9.doBccList", archive@xxx.de);
(These are the values I became from about:config)
and copied it to /usr/lib/thunderbird/
I start thunderbird and only get this message: Failed to read the configuration file. Please contact your system administrator.
Well - thats me :(
I then tried to encode the file mozilla.cfg to ROT13 as suggested in another post and removed the line pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); from the file local-settings.js.
Now thunderbird starts again, but the pereferences are still clickable and the user can edit or delete the BCC which is not what was intended...
I am stuck here. Can somebody shed some light on the problem or at least push me in the right direction?
Greetings Harvey
Gekose oplossing
I notice you say:
- lockPref("mail.identity.id7.doBccList", archive@xxx.de);
- lockPref("mail.identity.id9.doBccList", archive@xxx.de);
I can only think of this... Where you say archive@xxx.de, this is a string value, but there are no quote marks before or after the string value. TRy:
- lockPref("mail.identity.id7.doBccList", "archive@xxx.de");
- lockPref("mail.identity.id9.doBccList", "archive@xxx.de");
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Gekose oplossing
I notice you say:
- lockPref("mail.identity.id7.doBccList", archive@xxx.de);
- lockPref("mail.identity.id9.doBccList", archive@xxx.de);
I can only think of this... Where you say archive@xxx.de, this is a string value, but there are no quote marks before or after the string value. TRy:
- lockPref("mail.identity.id7.doBccList", "archive@xxx.de");
- lockPref("mail.identity.id9.doBccList", "archive@xxx.de");
This was the first kick for a two-line: I forgot to lock the tick boxx for the bcc field which can be disabled via: lockPref("mail.identity.id7.doBcc", true); lockPref("mail.identity.id9.doBcc", true);
BTW: Thank you very much ;)