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Dead links in developer documentation about E-mail autoconfiguration #156

Closed jhaand closed 1 year ago

jhaand commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I tried to write an XML file or the autoconfig in Thunderbird this morning. Getting to the documentation proved a bit troublesome.

The file format is decribed at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat

Which contains the following dead links: Description of the different mechanisms to serve the configuration file How to create your own config file

I was able to retrieve them via archive.org

Could you fix the content?

jobisoft commented 1 year ago

Those pages have been purged by Mozilla. The first one is in this backup: https://udn.realityripple.com/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

But the second one is only in the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20200915064941/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration/FileFormat/HowTo

The content should probably be re-added to the wiki page. If it is only used by Thunderbird, the entire section should be added to DTN.

SphinxKnight commented 1 year ago

adding https://github.com/mdn/archived-content/tree/main/files/en-us/mozilla/thunderbird/autoconfiguration to pointers edit: also adding https://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/thunderbird/autoconfiguration/