source: xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml@ ae2aab61

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http 
           "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp
           "&mozilla-ftp;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum            "0a740cdeee86d3ab49c635c6070c4b06">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-size              "194 MB">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize         "3.9 GB (73 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time              "50 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="thunderbird" xreflabel="Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="thunderbird.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="thunderbird">
    <primary sortas="a-Thunderbird">Thunderbird</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Thunderbird</title>

    <para>
      <application>Thunderbird</application> is a stand-alone mail/news client
      based on the <application>Mozilla</application> codebase. It uses the
      Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.
    </para>

    &lfs77_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &thunderbird-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Thunderbird Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
      <xref linkend="yasm"/> and
      <xref linkend="zip"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
      <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
      <xref linkend="nss"/> and
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        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.
      </para>
    </note>

    <note>
      <para>
        You must have installed <application>OpenSSL</application> before
        <application>Python 2</application>, 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 SeaMonkey), check if
        <filename>/usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so</filename>
        exists. If it does not, reinstall <xref linkend="python2"/> (after
        installing <xref linkend="openssl"/>. The latest version of any
        <emphasis>currently maintained</emphasis> version of OpenSSL should be
        satisfactory if already installed.
      </para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="gst-plugins-base"/> (with
      <xref linkend="gst-plugins-good"/> and
      <xref linkend="gst-ffmpeg"/> at runtime), or
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
      <xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),
      <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
      <xref linkend="wget"/>,
      <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/> and
      <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Thunderbird"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Thunderbird</title>

    <para>
      The configuration of <application>Thunderbird</application> is
      accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
      the desired configuration options. A default
      <filename>mozconfig</filename> is created below. To see the entire list
      of available configuration options (and a brief description of each),
      issue <command>mozilla/configure --help</command>. Create the file with
      the following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># 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

# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio

# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player.
# To enable it, make sure you also set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to
# "true" in about:config.

# If you have GStreamer 0.10.x installed, comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
# or uncomment this line if you have GStreamer 1.x.y installed:
#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

# 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:
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

# 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

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</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      First, fix building with system freetype-2.6 or later:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^ftglyph.h/ i ftfntfmt.h' mozilla/config/system-headers</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Compile <application>Thunderbird</application> by issuing the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Install <application>Thunderbird</application> by running the following
      commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &amp;&amp;
chown -R root:root /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      While still as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
      install the icon files which will be used in the desktop file below:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>for s in 16 22 24 32 48 256
do
install -v -Dm644 /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/chrome/icons/default/default${s}.png \
                  /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${s}x${s}/apps/thunderbird.png
done &amp;&amp;
gtk-update-icon-cache -qf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &amp;&amp;
unset s</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>make -f client.mk</command>: Mozilla products are packaged to
      allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
      configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
      <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename> file to
      get initial configuration and setup parameters.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Thunderbird</title>

    <para>
      If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a
      default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to
      <application>Thunderbird</application> 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.
    </para>

    <para>
      First, open the configuration dialog by opening the <quote>Edit</quote>
      drop-down menu. Choose <quote>Preferences</quote> and then click on the
      <quote>Advanced</quote> icon on the top menu bar. Choose the
      <quote>General</quote> tab and click on the <quote>Config Editor</quote>
      button. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and
      information related to each one. You can use the <quote>Filter:</quote>
      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 <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change
      the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same
      way, except choose <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the
      desired data into the fields when prompted.
    </para>

    <para>
      The configuration preference item you need to check so that
      <application>Thunderbird</application> uses a specified browser is the
      <parameter>network.protocol-handler.app.http</parameter> which should be
      set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.
      <option>/usr/bin/firefox</option>.
    </para>

    <tip>
      <para>
        There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
        customize <application>Thunderbird</application>. A very extensive,
        but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at
        <ulink url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.
      </para>
    </tip>

    <para>
      If you use a desktop environment such as <application>GNOME</application>
      or <application>KDE</application>, you may want to create a desktop file
      in order to be able to launch <application>Thunderbird</application> from the
      desktop menus. If you didn't enable
      <application>Startup Notification</application> support in your mozconfig
      then change the StartupNotify line to false. Run the following commands
      as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &amp;&amp;

cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>[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</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          thunderbird
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="thunderbird-prog">
        <term><command>thunderbird</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is <application>Mozilla</application>'s email and newsgroup client.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="thunderbird thunderbird-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-thunderbird">thunderbird</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>