Comment 65 for bug 233901

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

With Firebird or Mozilla, it is possible to use
pref("general.config.filename", "ect.cfg");
pref("general.config.vendor", "ect");

preferences in all.js and make the client query a web server to download
preferences. Support for this feature does not exist in Thunderbird. I am sure

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read
http://www.int-evry.fr/mci/user/procacci/netscape/en/mozilla-autoconfig-en.html
and set up a mission control server as described in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206294
2. Launch thunderbird
3. Observe web server logs to see a hit
Actual Results:
No hits to the mission control servers coming from thunderbird client

Expected Results:
Thunderbird should contact the web server and download the configuration and
apply them (lock some settings etc.), like Mozilla or Firebird does. However, it
looks like it doesn't do that.

When I compile thunderbird on Linux with just export MOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1
mk_add_options MOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1 set in the .mozconfig it actually works but of
course it's not thunderbird anymore.