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Autoconfig won't enable extension by default

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dreh23
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We have pointed the thunderbird preferences to our own webservice that generates user based configuration files.

ProgramFiles/Mozilla Thunderbird/default/pref/autoconfig: pref("general.config.filename", "defaults/pref/ourconfig.cfg");

and

in ProgramFiles/Mozilla Thunderbird/default/pref/ourconfig.cfg var env_user = getenv("USERNAME");

lockPref("autoadmin.global_config_url", "http://ourserver/"+env_user);

Ourserver generates a configuration. This works great. Only Hickup we have that our extensions aren't enabled (they sit in the extension folder) and get installed by profile creation. If I curl the configuration and put it directly in to ourconfig.cfg the addons are enabled by default. What am I missing? Ty for your time. Joe

We have pointed the thunderbird preferences to our own webservice that generates user based configuration files. ProgramFiles/Mozilla Thunderbird/default/pref/autoconfig: pref("general.config.filename", "defaults/pref/ourconfig.cfg"); and in ProgramFiles/Mozilla Thunderbird/default/pref/ourconfig.cfg var env_user = getenv("USERNAME"); lockPref("autoadmin.global_config_url", "http://ourserver/"+env_user); Ourserver generates a configuration. This works great. Only Hickup we have that our extensions aren't enabled (they sit in the extension folder) and get installed by profile creation. If I curl the configuration and put it directly in to ourconfig.cfg the addons are enabled by default. What am I missing? Ty for your time. Joe

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Zenos
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This is way above my abilities and knowledge, but my reading of autoconfiguration is that it is intended only for account set-up; I can't see that it was intended to be used to manage extensions and so forth. Have you seen any documentation that says otherwise?

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