Information
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fast, standard compliant, and open source (GPL) email and news reader. For more information, go to the Thunderbird Website.
Running Thunderbird on Athena
To run Mozilla Thunderbird on Athena, you will first need to attach the thunderbird
locker. This can be done by executing the following command:
athena% add thunderbird
This will attach the thunderbird locker to /mit/thunderbird. To launch Mozilla
Thunderbird, type:
athena% thunderbird &
Command Line Options
For a full listing of Thunderbird's command line options, type the command:
athena% thunderbird --help
Additional options are availible on Athena:
- --listver
- Lists the versions of Mozilla Thunderbird that are availible for your particular hardware platform.
- --runver <version>
- Runs the specified version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Contact
The maintainers of this locker can be reached at thunderbird@mit.edu