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NAME
thunderbird - Mail User Agent (MUA) and newsgroup/RSS client for X11
derived from the Mozilla Thunderbird.
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird [OPTIONS] [URL]
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin [OPTIONS] [URL]
DESCRIPTION
Thunderbird provides IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support
for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced
message filtering, junk mail controls, message grouping, labels, return
receipts, smart address book, LDAP address completion, import tools and
the ability to manage multiple identities in email and newsgroup ac-
counts.
Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security such as
S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, and support for certifi-
cates and security devices.
USAGE
thunderbird is a executable file that will set up the environment for
the starting executable, thunderbird-bin. If there is an Thunderbird
mail client already running, thunderbird will arrange for it to create
a new mail client window; otherwise it will start the Thunderbird ap-
plication.
OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by thunderbird is included below.
X11 options
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
--sync Make X calls synchronous
--g-fatal-warnings
Make all warnings fatal
Mozilla options
-h, -help
Show summary of options.
-v, -version
Print the Thunderbird version.
-P [profile]
Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Pro-
file Manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
--profile [path]
Start with with [profile] from the given [path].
--migration
Start with migration wizard. May require -no-remote, see below.
--ProfileManager
Start with profile manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
--no-remote
Don't connect to a running Thunderbird instance. Don't accept or
send remote commands. This option can be necessary in conjunc-
tion to several of the options above, that won't have any effect
when an Thunderbird instance is running unless -no-remote is
used at the same time.
--new-instance
Open a new instance instead of a new windows in the running in-
stance.
--UILocale locale
Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By de-
fault, it is guessed from environment and available locales for
Thunderbird.
--safe-mode
Starts Thunderbird in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions
and showing a bit more debugging messages.
--jsconsole
Start with Javascript Console
-addressbook
Open the address book at startup.
-compose
Compose a mail or news message.
-mail Open the mail folder view.
-mail URL
Open the message specified by this URL.
-news Open the news client.
-setDefaultMail
Set Thunderbird as the default mail client.
-options
Open the options dialog.
-file Open the specified email file.
DEBUGGING
-g Starts Thunderbird through a debugger (gdb by default).
ENVIRONMENT
MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS - when set, totally disables loading plugins.
FILES
/usr/bin/thunderbird - shell script wrapping thunderbird-bin
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin - thunderbird executable
EXAMPLES
Some typical use case for starting Thunderbird from a console
Starting Thunderbird without any extra options, useful to any messages
from thunderbird in case something went not o.k.:
thunderbird
Starting Thunderbird without any extensions or themes, useful if exten-
sions may make some trouble:
thunderbird --safe-mode
Starting Thunderbird with a composing window:
thunderbird -compose
Starting Thunderbird with the default debugger:
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh -debug /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
Starting Thunderbird with the specific debugger:
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh --debugger /foo/bar/debugger /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
BUGS
To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or re-
port bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.
AUTHORS
The Mozilla Organization
http://www.mozilla.org/about.html
Christoph Göhre February 27, 2010 THUNDERBIRD(1)
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