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Mozilla Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail/news client based on the Mozilla codebase.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.5/thunderbird-0.5-source.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.5/thunderbird-0.5-source.tar.gz
Download size: 31 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 599 MB
Estimated build time: 11.9 SBU
The current source tarball uses CRLF line-ending (DOS Format). This causes problems during the compilation. Once you extract the tarball, convert the files to UNIX style line endings using hd2u-0.9.0.
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix --d2u
The configuration of Mozilla Thunderbird is very similar to Mozilla-1.6 and hence the options will not be discussed. Refer to the Mozilla-1.6 for explanations and additional configuration information.
Compile and install Mozilla Thunderbird by running the following commands:
export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL="1" &&
export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1" &&
export MOZ_THUNDERBIRD="1" &&
./configure --prefix=/opt/thunderbird-0.5 \
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 \
--with-x --with-system-zlib \
--with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-mng \
--enable-xft --enable-crypto \
--disable-accessibility \
--disable-tests --disable-debug \
--disable-logging --enable-reorder \
--enable-strip --disable-pedantic \
--enable-cpp-rtti --enable-extensions=all \
--disable-calendar &&
make &&
make install &&
ln -sf /opt/thunderbird-0.5/bin/thunderbird /usr/bin/MozillaThunderbird
To enable multi-user operation, execute the following:
cd /opt/thunderbird-0.5/lib/mozilla-* &&
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD" &&
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="$PWD" &&
./regxpcom &&
./regchrome &&
touch `find $PWD -name *.rdf`