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== deploy with thunderbird ==
To deploy a extension with thunderbird for the first time (the user does not already have an profile) or if you have an updated version of thunderbird simply place the extensions in the in the application's distribution directory %PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Thunderbird\distribution\extensions ([https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Customizing_Firefox#Including_extensions_with_your_distribution_of_Firefox source]). The extension will be activated after the first start of TB.
If you want to deploy an plugin during installation of TB, but did not like to have it activated automatically, put it into %PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Thunderbird\extensions instead. Users find this plugins as isntalled but deaktivated in Thunderbird.
Note: (testing with thunderbird 10) the filename apparently must be <tt>{extension-id}.xpi</tt> (to be found within the unzipped .xpi in install.rdf), not the usual filename it downloads as from addons.