THUNDERBIRD(1) Linux User's Manual THUNDERBIRD(1) 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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