THUNDERBIRD
Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: February 27, 2010
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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 accounts.
Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security such as S/MIME,
digital signing, message encryption, and support for certificates 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 application.
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 Profile 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 conjunction 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 instance.
- --UILocale locale
-
Start with locale resources as User Interface locale. By default, 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 extensions 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 report bugs
to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.
AUTHORS
- The Mozilla Organization
-
http://www.mozilla.org/about.html
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- USAGE
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- OPTIONS
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- X11 options
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- Mozilla options
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- DEBUGGING
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- ENVIRONMENT
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- FILES
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- EXAMPLES
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- Some typical use case for starting Thunderbird from a console
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- BUGS
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- AUTHORS
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