%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. &lfs71_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 Optional , , and (for integration with the old version of Gnome), , , , , , (or ), Hunspell, Libevent, Valgrind (only for testing the jemalloc code) and 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 ./configure --help. Create the file with the following command: cat > mozconfig << "EOF" # If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running # several jobs at once, but if you have a single core, delete this line: mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4" # If you have installed Yasm delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-webm # If you have installed DBus-Glib delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-dbus # If you have installed wireless-tools delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi # If you have installed libnotify delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-libnotify # Uncomment these if you have installed them: # ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell # 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 mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/thunderbuild ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols ac_add_options --disable-installer ac_add_options --disable-static ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --enable-shared ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --with-pthreads 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: make -f client.mk && make -C thunderbuild/mail/installer This package does not come with a test suite. Install Thunderbird by running the following commands as the root user: mkdir -pv /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; && tar xf thunderbuild/mozilla/dist/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.en-US.linux-$(uname -m).tar.bz2 \ -C /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; --strip-components=1 && ln -sfv ../lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/thunderbird /usr/bin The above instructions just install the parts you need to run Thunderbird. Alternatively, if you want to install the full Thunderbird development environment, as the root user: make -C thunderbuild install 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. make -C thunderbuild/mail/installer: this runs make in the thunderbuild/mail/installer folder. This gathers together all the parts of Thunderbird and compresses them into a tarball. tar -xfv thunderbuild/mozilla/dist ...: This untars Thunderbird, the -C option uncompresses the files in /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;. The --strip-components=1 option removes the leading 'thunderbird' directory from the filenames, allowing us to untar it into a versioned directory. 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 like Gnome or KDE you may wish to create a thunderbird.desktop file so that Thunderbird appears in the panel's menus. If you didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the root user: mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications && cat > /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop << "EOF" && [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=Thunderbird Comment=Fetch Your Email Icon=thunderbird Exec=thunderbird Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;News; StartupNotify=true Terminal=false EOF ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \ /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories thunderbird Numerous libraries, email/newsgroups components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; Short Descriptions thunderbird is Mozilla's email and newsgroup client. thunderbird