NAME¶
icedove - Mail User Agent (MUA) and newsgroup/RSS client for X11 derived from
the Mozilla Thunderbird.
SYNOPSIS¶
icedove [
OPTIONS] [
URL]
/usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin [
OPTIONS] [
URL]
DESCRIPTION¶
Icedove 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.
Icedove provides enterprise and government grade security such as S/MIME,
digital signing, message encryption, and support for certificates and security
devices.
USAGE¶
icedove is a executable file that will set up the environment for the
starting executable,
icedove-bin. If there is an Icedove mail client
already running,
icedove will arrange for it to create a new mail
client window; otherwise it will start the Icedove application.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of the options supported by
icedove 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 Icedove version.
- -P [profile]
- Start with profile. When no profile is given, displays the Profile
Manager. May require -no-remote, see below.
- -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 Icedove 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 Icedove 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 Icedove.
- -safe-mode
- Starts Icedove 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 Icedove as the default mail client.
- -options
- Open the options dialog.
- -file
- Open the specified email file.
DEBUGGING¶
To debug Icedove, you need to run
run-mozilla.sh with the absolute path
of icedove.
/usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh [
DEBUGOPTIONS]
/usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin
DEBUGOPTIONS¶
A summary of the options for debugging
icedove is included below.
- -g, -debug
- Starts Icedove through a debugger (gdb by default).
- --debugger program
- Use program (instead the default) as a debugger for Icedove.
Implies -debug.
ENVIRONMENT¶
MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS - when set, totally disables loading plugins.
FILES¶
/usr/bin/icedove - shell script wrapping
icedove-bin
/usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin -
icedove executable
EXAMPLES¶
Some typical use case for starting Icedove from a console¶
Starting Icedove without any extra options, useful to any messages from icedove
in case something went not o.k.:
Starting Icedove without any extensions or themes, useful if extensions may make
some trouble:
Starting Icedove with a composing window:
Starting Icedove with the default debugger:
/usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh -debug /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin
Starting Icedove with the specific debugger:
/usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh --debugger /foo/bar/debugger /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-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