Comment 215 for bug 233901

this bug is revival in thunderbird 3.x and firefox 3.5 :-(

default Fedora11 packages needs to be recompiled with MOZ_LDAP_XPCOM=1
 and --enable-extensions=pref in order to beneficiate of that unvaluable feature (autoconfig based on ldap calls) for large enterprise deployements .

for details, check the doc I maintain at
https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=en/MCD%2C_Mission_Control_Desktop_AKA_AutoConfig#Thunderbird

unfortunatly, this time, applying the usual compile options doesn't seem to be enough, although I recompiled thunderbird-3.0-2.3.beta2 with --enable-extensions=pref and MOZ_LDAP_XPCOM=1, when I start it with calls to a thunderbird defaultpref file within greprefs/all.js:
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); // for MCD .cfg files
pref('general.config.filename', 'thunderbird.cfg'); // for MCD .cfg files

at start-up, I get the following error message

"Netscape.cfg/AutoConfig failed. Please contact your system administrator.
 Error: getLDAPAttibutes failed: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0xc1f30001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED) [nsILDAPURL.spec]" nsresult: "0xc1f30001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED)" location: "JS frame :: file:////usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b2/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js :: getLDAPAttributes :: line 174" data: no]"

looks as if the ldap extension for getLDAPAttributes function prefcalls.js isn't present !? or something else?. MOZ_LDAP_XPCOM=1 wasn't the solution to that ?

Any help, greatly appreciated .
thanks .