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¶
To debug Thunderbird, you need to run
run-mozilla.sh with the absolute
path of thunderbird.
/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh [
DEBUGOPTIONS]
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
DEBUGOPTIONS¶
A summary of the options for debugging
thunderbird is included below.
- -g, -debug
- Starts Thunderbird through a debugger (gdb by default).
- --debugger program
- Use program (instead the default) as a debugger for Thunderbird.
Implies -debug.
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.:
Starting Thunderbird without any extensions or themes, useful if extensions may
make some trouble:
Starting Thunderbird with a composing window:
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