.TH "THUNDERBIRD" "1" "February 27, 2010" "Christoph Göhre" "Linux User's Manual"
.SH "NAME"
thunderbird \- Mail User Agent (MUA) and newsgroup/RSS client for X11 derived from the Mozilla Thunderbird.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIURL\fR]

.B /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird\-bin
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIURL\fR]

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\fBThunderbird\fR 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.
.PP
\fBThunderbird\fR provides enterprise and government grade security such as S/MIME,
digital signing, message encryption, and support for certificates and security
devices.

.SH "USAGE"
\fBthunderbird\fR is a executable file that will set up the
environment for the starting executable, \fBthunderbird\-bin\fR.
If there is an Thunderbird mail client already running, \fBthunderbird\fR will
arrange for it to create a new mail client window; otherwise it will start
the Thunderbird application.

.SH "OPTIONS"
A summary of the options supported by \fBthunderbird\fR is included below.

.SS "X11 options"
.TP
.BI \-\-display= DISPLAY
X display to use
.TP
.B \-\-sync
Make X calls synchronous
.TP
.B \-\-g\-fatal\-warnings
Make all warnings fatal

.SS "Mozilla options"
.TP
.B \-h, \-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v, \-version
Print the Thunderbird version.
.TP
\fB\-P\fR [\fIprofile\fR]
Start with \fIprofile\fR. When no profile is given, displays the Profile Manager. May require \fB\-no\-remote\fR, see below.
.TP
.B \-\-profile [\fIpath\fR]
Start with with [\fIprofile\fR] from the given [\fIpath\fR].
.TP
.B \-\-migration
Start with migration wizard. May require \fB\-no\-remote\fR, see below.
.TP
.B \-\-ProfileManager
Start with profile manager. May require \fB\-no\-remote\fR, see below.
.TP
.B \-\-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
\fB\-no\-remote\fR is used at the same time.
.TP
.B \-\-new\-instance
Open a new instance instead of a new windows in the running instance.
.TP
\fB\-\-UILocale\fR \fIlocale\fR
Start with \fIlocale\fR resources as User Interface locale. By default, it is
guessed from environment and available locales for Thunderbird.
.TP
.B \-\-safe\-mode
Starts Thunderbird in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and
showing a bit more debugging messages.
.TP
.B \-\-jsconsole
Start with Javascript Console
.TP
.B \-addressbook
Open the address book at startup.
.TP
.B \-compose
Compose a mail or news message.
.TP
.B \-mail
Open the mail folder view.
.TP
\fB\-mail\fR \fIURL\fR
Open the message specified by this \fIURL\fR.
.TP
.B \-news
Open the news client.
.TP
.B \-setDefaultMail
Set Thunderbird as the default mail client.
.TP
.B \-options
Open the options dialog.
.TP
.B \-file
Open the specified email file.

.SH "DEBUGGING"
.TP
.B \-g
Starts Thunderbird through a debugger (gdb by default).

.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
\fIMOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS\fR \- when set, totally disables loading plugins.

.SH "FILES"
\fI/usr/bin/thunderbird\fR \- shell script wrapping
\fBthunderbird\-bin\fR
.br

\fI/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird\-bin\fR \- \fBthunderbird\fR
executable
.br

.SH "EXAMPLES"
.SS "Some typical use case for starting Thunderbird from a console"
.sp
Starting Thunderbird without any extra options, useful to any messages from thunderbird in case something went not o.k.:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
thunderbird
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
Starting Thunderbird without any extensions or themes, useful if extensions may make some trouble:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
thunderbird \-\-safe-mode
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
Starting Thunderbird with a composing window:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
thunderbird \-compose
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
Starting Thunderbird with the default debugger:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh \-debug /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.sp
Starting Thunderbird with the specific debugger:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh \-\-debugger /foo/bar/debugger /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}

.SH "BUGS"
To report a bug, please visit \fIhttp://bugzilla.mozilla.org/\fR and/or report bugs
to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual.

.SH "AUTHORS"
.TP
.B The Mozilla Organization
.I http://www.mozilla.org/about.html