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diff --git a/debian/thunderbird.1 b/debian/thunderbird.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7942daa85f --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/thunderbird.1 @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +.TH "THUNDERBIRD" "1" "February 27, 2010" "Christoph Göhre" "Linux User's Manual" +.SH "NAME" +thunderbird \- Mail User Agent (MUA) and newsgroup/RSS client for X11 derived from the Mozilla Thunderbird. +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.B /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird +[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIURL\fR] + +.B /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird\-bin +[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIURL\fR] + +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +\fBThunderbird\fR 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. +.PP +\fBThunderbird\fR provides enterprise and government grade security such as S/MIME, +digital signing, message encryption, and support for certificates and security +devices. + +.SH "USAGE" +\fBthunderbird\fR is a executable file that will set up the +environment for the starting executable, \fBthunderbird\-bin\fR. +If there is an Thunderbird mail client already running, \fBthunderbird\fR will +arrange for it to create a new mail client window; otherwise it will start +the Thunderbird application. + +.SH "OPTIONS" +A summary of the options supported by \fBthunderbird\fR is included below. + +.SS "X11 options" +.TP +.BI \-\-display= DISPLAY +X display to use +.TP +.B \-\-sync +Make X calls synchronous +.TP +.B \-\-g\-fatal\-warnings +Make all warnings fatal + +.SS "Mozilla options" +.TP +.B \-h, \-help +Show summary of options. +.TP +.B \-v, \-version +Print the Thunderbird version. +.TP +\fB\-P\fR [\fIprofile\fR] +Start with \fIprofile\fR. When no profile is given, displays the Profile Manager. May require \fB\-no\-remote\fR, see below. +.TP +.B \-\-profile [\fIpath\fR] +Start with with [\fIprofile\fR] from the given [\fIpath\fR]. +.TP +.B \-\-migration +Start with migration wizard. May require \fB\-no\-remote\fR, see below. +.TP +.B \-\-ProfileManager +Start with profile manager. May require \fB\-no\-remote\fR, see below. +.TP +.B \-\-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 +\fB\-no\-remote\fR is used at the same time. +.TP +.B \-\-new\-instance +Open a new instance instead of a new windows in the running instance. +.TP +\fB\-\-UILocale\fR \fIlocale\fR +Start with \fIlocale\fR resources as User Interface locale. By default, it is +guessed from environment and available locales for Thunderbird. +.TP +.B \-\-safe\-mode +Starts Thunderbird in safe mode, i.e. disabling all extensions and +showing a bit more debugging messages. +.TP +.B \-\-jsconsole +Start with Javascript Console +.TP +.B \-addressbook +Open the address book at startup. +.TP +.B \-compose +Compose a mail or news message. +.TP +.B \-mail +Open the mail folder view. +.TP +\fB\-mail\fR \fIURL\fR +Open the message specified by this \fIURL\fR. +.TP +.B \-news +Open the news client. +.TP +.B \-setDefaultMail +Set Thunderbird as the default mail client. +.TP +.B \-options +Open the options dialog. +.TP +.B \-file +Open the specified email file. + +.SH "DEBUGGING" +.TP +.B \-g +Starts Thunderbird through a debugger (gdb by default). + +.SH "ENVIRONMENT" +\fIMOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS\fR \- when set, totally disables loading plugins. + +.SH "FILES" +\fI/usr/bin/thunderbird\fR \- shell script wrapping +\fBthunderbird\-bin\fR +.br + +\fI/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird\-bin\fR \- \fBthunderbird\fR +executable +.br + +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.SS "Some typical use case for starting Thunderbird from a console" +.sp +Starting Thunderbird without any extra options, useful to any messages from thunderbird in case something went not o.k.: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +thunderbird +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +Starting Thunderbird without any extensions or themes, useful if extensions may make some trouble: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +thunderbird \-\-safe-mode +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +Starting Thunderbird with a composing window: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +thunderbird \-compose +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +Starting Thunderbird with the default debugger: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh \-debug /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +Starting Thunderbird with the specific debugger: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +/usr/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh \-\-debugger /foo/bar/debugger /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} + +.SH "BUGS" +To report a bug, please visit \fIhttp://bugzilla.mozilla.org/\fR and/or report bugs +to the Debian Bug Tracking System, as usual. + +.SH "AUTHORS" +.TP +.B The Mozilla Organization +.I http://www.mozilla.org/about.html |