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==Development Plans== | ==Development Plans== | ||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird | * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_57 Add-ons guide for version 57] | ||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Home_Page Mail/News] (used by both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) | * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Home_Page Mail/News] (used by both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) | ||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning | * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning Tb-planning] is a moderated mailing list to "offer an easy, transparent venue for getting constructive, Thunderbird-related work done". | ||
* [http://lists.thunderbird.net/mailman/listinfo/maildev_lists.thunderbird.net Maildev] is a moderated mailing list for Thunderbird Engineering Council plans | |||
* [https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird59support-issues TB59 support issues] | |||
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tb-planning/ZU1iEZiZ5cw Are most of the existing add-ons being sacrificed due to adding support for WebExtension?] | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414398 Deal with the fallout of bug 1413413 (see below)] | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413413 Remove support for extensions having their own prefs file] | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413432 Remove support for non-bootstrapped extensions] | |||
==Specifications== | ==Specifications== | ||
Revision as of 00:00, 10 December 2017
Introductory help
- Thunderbird 3.1 FLOSS manual, most current, unofficial manual
- Managing Thunderbird mail accounts at gunnars.net (2.0 and earlier)
Support
- MozillaZine Thunderbird support forum
- Thunderbird KB KB=Knowledge Base help articles and ask user questions (official Mozilla support)
- Thunderbird Help & Tutorials
- Thunderbird support newsgroup or via google, Thunderbird support newsgroup
- Thunderbird Portable (USB flash drive based) support forum
Non-English forums
- Mozilla.cz fórum (Czech)
- MozBrowser nl-be (Dutch)
- GeckoZone (French)
- Thunderbird Mail DE (German)
- Mozilla.org.il חדשות (Hebrew)
- Mozilla Italia (Italian)
- MozillaZine (Japanese)
- Mozilla Россия (Russian)
- MozillaES (Spanish)
Other
- A list of Thunderbird communication channels
- A collection of Mozilla links
- BabelZilla (localization support forum for add-ons)
- Calendar weblog (Lightning)
- Known vulnerabilities in Mozilla products
- Mozilla Add-ons blog
- Mozilla Bugzilla (bug reports)
- Mozilla Developer Center (now called the Mozilla Developer Network)
- Mozilla Downloads is an archive of old projects such as the Grendel mail client and the Netscape Messaging Access SDK which use earlier versions of the mail/news code used by Thunderbird.
- Mozilla Error Lookup
- Mozilla Localization (L10n)
- Postbox knowledge base. Postbox has a different GUI and features but has enough in common (since its based on Thunderbird) that some of the articles might be useful.
- tb-enterprise is a mailing list for administrators of large enterprises.
- Thunderbird Enterprise information for administrators of large enterprises.
- The Differences between SeaMonkey and Firefox/Thunderbird
- Thunderbird page in Mozilla Wiki
- Thunderbird:Backend Hacking Guide For Newbies
- Wikipedia article on Thunderbird
- Thunderbird cross-reference (search source code)
Build status
Thunderbird is a volunteer project involving many moving parts, people and issues, so it does not have a fixed, dated release schedule. Releases occur as some point after Firefox releases, on a best effort basis. When you see it mentioned in release notes and in automatic update then you can be reasonable certain it is officially released - other sources of information generally cannot be trusted to be accurate.
- Releases (MozillaWiki page for for tracking in-progress releases)
- An explanation about versions and builds for testing...
- Thunderbird infrastructure.
- Pushlog for try server (current test)
- Viewing and searching Mozilla source code online
Status
- Thunderbird project page
- Features being evaluated or worked on (seems obsolete, but provides a useful history)
- Mozilla releases
- Thunderbird status meetings
Development Plans
- Add-ons guide for version 57
- Mail/News (used by both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey)
- Tb-planning is a moderated mailing list to "offer an easy, transparent venue for getting constructive, Thunderbird-related work done".
- Maildev is a moderated mailing list for Thunderbird Engineering Council plans
- TB59 support issues
- Are most of the existing add-ons being sacrificed due to adding support for WebExtension?
- Deal with the fallout of bug 1413413 (see below)
- Remove support for extensions having their own prefs file
- Remove support for non-bootstrapped extensions
Specifications
- AutoComplete
- AutoConfiguration
- Code review requirements . It also lists who is responsible for each sub-module.
- Encryption technologies
- Gloda
- HTML Sanitizer
- HTTP extensions for Account Management and Session Identification
- LDAP support
- Mail UE Specs
- Mail/News Engineering page
- Mail/News Related Standards
- Message Reader
- Message Threading
- Network Security Services (NSS)
- NSS shared database
- SSL error codes
- Pluggable mail stores
- Thunderbird 3 for developers
- Thunderbird 3.1 for developers
- Text to HTML conversion
- Using the Multiple Accounts API
- X-Mozilla-Status explained
https://developer.mozilla.org/Special:Tags?tag=Thunderbird lists all of the pages tagged with Thunderbird on the MDC web site
