This page has links to information about ADMINISTERING Thunderbird in enterprises and medium to large organizations. Topics include deployment, configuration, management, and discussion of important bugs and strategic issues. (For general and user help on using Thunderbird visit the Thunderbird support site.)

You can help by:

• Adding new tips and links to this wiki page (click edit).
• Posting questions and answers in the enterprise forum/topicbox.
• Helping with Thunderbird bug reports and enhancement requests, especially bugs important to enterprises.
• Participating in the Greater Thunderbird Ecosphere.

Release Schedule

See Release Cycle

News and Discussion

• In the Enterprise forum/topicbox ADMINISTRATORS can learn what other administrators are doing, and you can help fellow administrators.
• Thunderbird includes enterprise information.

Key Bug Reports in Bugzilla

For enterprise related bugs see bug tb-enterprise aka bug 564148, for issues 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 actual 'work' or discussion. Development of solutions occurs in the blocking bugs 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

See Thunderbird for Organizations.

Some articles specific to enterprise needs:

• Group Policies, Deploying, Upgrading
• Account Autoconfig
  • New - Account Autoconfig (replaces RDF as of version 3)
  • Original - MCD, Mission Control Desktop AKA AutoConfig

Articles

• Ideal Corporate E-mail Client (in Russian)
• Posts tagged Thunderbird and MCD by Dean Brundage.
  • Manufacturing User Preferences For MCD (example title)