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Install Mozilla Thunderbird and configure email accounts for users
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Version information

  • 1.0.2 (latest)
released May 21st 2018
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x, 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >= 4.7.0 < 6.0.0
  • , , , windows

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'puppetfinland-thunderbird', '1.0.2'
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bolt module add puppetfinland-thunderbird
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install puppetfinland-thunderbird --version 1.0.2

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puppetfinland/thunderbird — version 1.0.2 May 21st 2018

thunderbird

A Puppet module for installing and configuring Mozilla Thunderbird. It makes heavy use of hash parameters to allow complex configurations on a per-user and per-email account basis. Typically all of the configuration should be placed high-up in the hierarchy, so that every user on every desktop/laptop gets the same Mozilla Thunderbird configuration. The default configuration can then be overridden on a node-by-node basis.

This module has been tested on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 8-9) and Windows 7 64-bit. Other *NIX variants such as RedHat, Debian and FreeBSD as well as 32-bit Windows have not been tested, but should work out of the box or with minor modifications. Adding MacOS X support should be fairly straightforward.

Currently there are a few limitations:

  • Only one identity per email account
  • Only system-wide IMAP/POP/SMTP server configuration
  • Only email account details are currently configured
  • No way to reuse global IMAP/POP server info for several accounts of a same system user
  • User's profiles.ini get's overwritten, so does not co-exist nicely with manually configured accounts. This might be considered a feature.

Module usage

Example usage of the class in Hiera:

classes:
    - thunderbird

# Globally defined IMAP/POP servers
thunderbird::servers:
    gmail:
        host: 'imap.gmail.com'
        is_gmail: 'true'
    rackspace:
        host: 'secure.emailsrvr.com'

# Globally defined SMTP servers
thunderbird::smtpservers:
    gmail:
        host: 'smtp.gmail.com'
        port: 587
        try_ssl: 2
        auth_method: 3
        description: 'Gmail SMTP server'
    rackspace:
        host: 'secure.emailsrvr.com'
        port: 465
        try_ssl: 3
        auth_method: 1
        description: 'Rackspace SMTP server'

# User profiles (one per system user)
thunderbird::profiles:
    john:
        accounts: 'john_gmail,john_rackspace'
        defaultaccount: 'john_gmail'

# Email account details. One or more per user.
thunderbird::userconfigs:
    john_gmail:
        username: 'john'
        email: 'john.doe@gmail.com'
        fullname: 'John Doe'
        organization: ''
        server: 'gmail'
        server_realusername: 'john.doe'
        smtpserver: 'gmail'
    john_rackspace:
        username: 'john'
        email: 'john@domain.com'
        fullname: 'John Doe'
        organization: 'ACME Terraforming, Inc.'
        server: 'rackspace'
        smtpserver: 'rackspace'

For details see these manifests: