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
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--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.
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|
Open the mail folder view. |
-mail URL
Open the message specified by this URL.
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-news |
Open the news client. |
-setDefaultMail
Set Thunderbird as the default mail client.
-options
Open the options dialog.
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-file |
Open the specified email file. |
DEBUGGING
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-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