Information
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fast, full featured mail and newsgroup client with advanced spam filtering abilities. 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 firebird
locker. This can be done by executing the following command:
athena% add firebird
This will attach the firebird locker to /mit/firebird. 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