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I ended up with Thunderbird 31 and visually it stinks.
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Down-load and set it up by hand:
Get the download from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html; down-load to /home/user/Downloads.
~/Downloads $ bunzip2 firefox-17.0.tar.bz2 ~/Downloads $ last total 878396 ... -rw-r--r-- 1 russ russ 40867840 2012-11-23 09:27 firefox-17.0.tar drwxr-xr-x 52 russ russ 2448 2012-11-23 09:27 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 russ russ 568 2012-11-23 09:30 . ~/Downloads $ tar -xf firefox-17.0.tar ~/Downloads $ last total 878398 ... drwxr-xr-x 11 russ russ 1576 2012-11-19 20:50 firefox -rw-r--r-- 1 russ russ 40867840 2012-11-23 09:27 firefox-17.0.tar drwxr-xr-x 52 russ russ 2448 2012-11-23 09:27 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 russ russ 592 2012-11-23 09:30 . ~/Downloads $ sudo mv firefox /usr/lib/firefox-17.0 ~/Downloads $ sudo bash [sudo] password for russ: ~ # cd /usr/lib /usr/lib # ll -d firefox* drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1424 2012-11-23 09:28 firefox drwxr-xr-x 11 russ russ 1576 2012-11-19 20:50 firefox-17.0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 168 2012-04-29 22:18 firefox-addons /usr/lib # chown -R root:root firefox-17.0/ /usr/lib # pu ../bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /usr/bin # ll firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2012-11-23 09:28 firefox -> ../lib/firefox/firefox.sh /usr/bin # rm firefox /usr/bin # ln -s ../lib/firefox-17.0/firefox /usr/bin # ll firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2012-11-23 09:32 firefox -> ../lib/firefox-17.0/firefox
Done. You may remove the old Firefox installation (/usr/lib/firefox) if desired. We just use the launcher we've already created for Firefox. Haven't created a (GNOME) launcher? Do this...
Clicking this new launcher in your menu panel will launch Firefox.
This is basically the same thing already copiously illustrated for Firefox above.
The important settings were already save under ~/.thunderbird, so all your mail should still be in place and your account settings still working. You will probably have to fix your proxy settings:
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network & Disk Space -> Connection Settings -> Configure Proxies to Access the Internet -> Use system proxy settings (or something like that).
Thunderbird.
You have to click in a cell to get the control handles. Click the arrow pointing up to add a row above, or down for adding a row below.
Click the circle with the x in it to delete the cell or row—you'll have to experiment to understand what this will do.
That's just it: password(s) used in Thunderbird, but Thunderbird itself has only the capability to remember a password, but it doesn't "have" a password itself.
When you change your password with your mail gateway/provider/whatever, you'll find Thunderbird will fail to log in the next time you launch or bounce it. It's at that point that you reveal the new password to Thunderbird and ask it to remember it. Also, this will typically happen twice per account since it provides for one password to receive mail for the account and another, separate once for the out-going server that sends mail. These two are potentially different depending on a couple of factors including your own choices.
Only on Ubuntu and openSuSE will Firefox make good on installing the missing Flash plug-in. On other Linuces, you have to:
# gunzip -d install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz # tar -xvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar # rm install_flash_player_10_linux.tar
This will leave you with libflashplayer.so in the plug-in subdirectory.
This is inserted by Thunderbird when you copy and paste something into it from another application, like a browser or Word.
Format → Remove Named Anchors
First, it's impossible to recover addresses without being able to run Thunderbird. Without windowed access to the host on which your addresses reside, it's without hope. (So, access via ssh is impossible.)
Second, it's impossible to delete or place addresses in the default folders, Collected Addresse and Personal Address Book, inside the Thunderbird address book. In consequence, get used to naming the books you export and import something else and just not using those default folders anymore.
Next, you can only export one address book at a time. Begin by clicking on the address book to export first, then do Tools → Export... and do what's obvious (give a name, etc.).
To import, reverse the procedure by bringing up the new Thunderbird address book and doing Tools → Import....
This is ickier. First, there is an add-on to make it easier, however, it's unnecessarily burdensome. Just follow these steps at the command line, after installing and otherwise setting up Thunderbird on the new computer host:
~/.thunderbird/tighs31a.default $ find . -name msgFilterRules.dat ./Mail/Local Folders/msgFilterRules.dat ./ImapMail/imap.googlemail.com/msgFilterRules.dat ./ImapMail/imap.googlemail-1.com/msgFilterRules.dat ./News/new.eclipse.org/msgFilterRules.dat
I did not find that I had to shut down Thunderbird on the new host before coping nor bounce it to see the rules once I'd copied them into place.
Enable menus in Thunderbird, then select View → Layout → Vertical View.
Note that not everything works. I have tried to use <iframe ... > for embedding video (but it doesn't work).