THUNDERBIRD(1)

💌 NAME 💌

thunderbird — your fave Mail User Agent (MUA) and newsgroup/RSS client for X11, derived from the Mozilla Thunderbird. She does it all, bestie. 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird [OPTIONS] [URL]

/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin [OPTIONS] [URL]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so Thunderbird is literally the whole package. She's giving:

• 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
• the ability to manage multiple identities in email and newsgroup accounts

And on top of ALL that? Enterprise and government grade security, no cap. That means S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, and support for certificates and security devices. She's secure AND iconic. 👑

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

So thunderbird is a executable file that sets up the environment for the starting executable, thunderbird-bin. The way this works:

• If there's a Thunderbird mail client already running, then thunderbird will arrange for it to create a new mail client window.
• Otherwise, it will just start the Thunderbird application.

Basically she checks if the party's already going before she starts a new one. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

A summary of the options supported by thunderbird is included below. Buckle up.

🌈 X11 options

• --display=DISPLAY — the X display to use.
• --sync — make X calls synchronous.
• --g-fatal-warnings — make all warnings fatal. (Yes, ALL of them. Dramatic queen behaviour. 💀)

🔥 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. iykyk. 🙈
• --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. It's giving "no accessories, just vibes." ✨
• --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.

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🐛 DEBUGGING 🐛

• -g — starts Thunderbird through a debugger (gdb by default).

Main character debugging energy. Slay. 💅

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🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

• MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS — when set, totally disables loading plugins.

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/bin/thunderbird — shell script wrapping thunderbird-bin.
• /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin — thunderbird executable.

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⭐ 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

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💀 BUGS 💀

To report a bug, please visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and/or report bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual. Found a bug? Not the vibe, but tell the girlies so they can fix it. 🫶

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The Mozilla Organization http://www.mozilla.org/about.html

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This lil masterpiece came from the Linux User's Manual, version written by Christoph Göhre, dated February 27, 2010. Periodt. 💖✨