%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Thunderbird Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail/news client based on the Mozilla codebase. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails. &lfs7a_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum; Download size: &thunderbird-size; Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize; Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time; Thunderbird Dependencies Required , , , , and Recommended , , , and If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes. With Thunderbird-31.0 and later versions, you must have installed Openssl before Python 2, or the build system will quickly fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from an older version of Thunderbird), check if /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists. If it does not, reinstall (after installing - the latest version of any currently maintained version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed - if that package has not already been installed). Optional , , , , , (with and at runtime), , , , (not recommended due to potential security concerns), , , , and Hunspell User Notes: The configuration of Thunderbird is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and a brief description of each), issue mozilla/configure --help. Create the file with the following command: cat > mozconfig << "EOF" # If you have a multicore machine, the build may be faster if using parallel # jobs. The build system automatically adds -jN to the "make" flags, where N # is the number of CPU cores. The option below is therefore useless, unless # you want to use a smaller number of jobs: #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1" # If you have installed dbus-glib, comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-dbus # If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi # GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player; # to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true" # in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and # uncomment the following one: ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer #ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0 # Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies: #ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell #ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio # Comment out following option if you have gconf installed ac_add_options --disable-gconf # If you want to compile the Mozilla Calendar, uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --enable-calendar # Comment out following options if you have not installed # recommended dependencies: # Do not use system SQLite for Thunderbird 45.x #ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite ac_add_options --with-system-libevent ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx ac_add_options --with-system-nspr ac_add_options --with-system-nss ac_add_options --with-system-icu # Set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to prevent segfaults due to agressive # optimizations in GCC-6: export CFLAGS+=" -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-schedule-insns2" export CXXFLAGS+=" -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-schedule-insns2" # The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line: ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --enable-application=mail ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-installer ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --enable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-strip ac_add_options --enable-install-strip ac_add_options --enable-gio ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier # Use internal cairo due to reports of unstable execution with # system cairo #ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman ac_add_options --with-pthreads ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-png ac_add_options --with-system-zlib EOF Compile Thunderbird by issuing the following commands: If you have installed version 2.1.8 or newer of libevent, fix a file: sed -e s/_EVENT_SIZEOF/EVENT__SIZEOF/ \ -i mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/message_pump_libevent.cc If you are compiling Thunderbird in chroot, prepend SHELL=/bin/sh to the make command below. sed -e '/#include/i\ print OUT "#define _GLIBCXX_INCLUDE_NEXT_C_HEADERS\\n"\;' \ -i mozilla/nsprpub/config/make-system-wrappers.pl && sed -e '/#include/a\ print OUT "#undef _GLIBCXX_INCLUDE_NEXT_C_HEADERS\\n"\;' \ -i mozilla/nsprpub/config/make-system-wrappers.pl && make -f client.mk This package does not come with a test suite. Install Thunderbird by running the following commands as the root user: make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= && chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; sed ...: These commands correct the source to be compatible with gcc6 by preventing c++ scope errors. export CFLAGS= ... export CXXFLAGS= ...: These settings work around code which gcc6 would otherwise regard as out-of-specification and allow it to produce a working program. make -f client.mk: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and setup parameters. If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to Thunderbird so that a browser will start when when you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the parameters. First, open the configuration dialog by opening the Edit drop-down menu. Choose Preferences and then click on the Advanced icon on the top menu bar. Choose the General tab and click on the Config Editor button. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can use the Filter: bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line, choose Modify from the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose New from the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when prompted. The configuration preference item you need to check so that Thunderbird uses a specified browser is the network.protocol-handler.app.http which should be set to the path of the desired browser, e.g. /usr/bin/firefox. There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize Thunderbird. A very extensive, but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at . If you use a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE, a desktop file thunderbird.desktop may be created, in order to include a Thunderbird entry in the menu. If you didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig, then change the StartupNotify line to false. Run the following commands as the root user: mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} && cat > /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop << "EOF" && [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Thunderbird Mail Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird GenericName=Mail Client Exec=thunderbird %u Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=thunderbird Categories=Application;Network;Email; MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto; StartupNotify=true EOF ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \ /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png Installed Program Installed Libraries Installed Directory thunderbird None /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; Short Descriptions thunderbird is Mozilla's email and newsgroup client. thunderbird