Other sources of Thunderbird information
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Introductory help
- Managing Thunderbird mail accounts at gunnars.net
- Thunderbird 2 Tutorial at FreeMailTutorials
- Nidelven IT's step-by-step tutorial
Support
- MozillaZine Thunderbird support forum
- Mozilla Messaging at GetSatisfaction (official support channel)
- Thunderbird Help & Tutorials at Mozilla Messaging
- 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)
- MozillaZine (Turkish)
- Український форум Mozilla (Ukrainian)
Other
- A collection of Mozilla links
- BabelZilla (localization support forum for add-ons)
- Calendar weblog (Lightning)
- David Ascher blog (CEO of Mozilla Messaging)
- Dmose blog (Thunderbird tech lead)
- Documenting Mozilla Messaging projects blog
- 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 Labs - Messaging Add-ons (add-ons that will eventually be merged into Thunderbird)
- Mozilla Localization (L10n)
- Planet Mozilla Messaging (blog aggregator)
- Roland Tanglao blog (Mozilla Messaging support lead)
- Mozilla Messaging/Thunderbird infrastructure
- 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 to discuss issues about deploying and configuring Thunderbird in enterprise environments.
- Thunderbird Enterprise wiki
- 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
- An explanation about versions and builds for testing...
- Releases (MozillaWiki page for for tracking in-progress releases)
- The Rumbling Edge: Weekly developments in Mozilla Thunderbird builds
- Tinderbox for comm-1.9.1 tree (Thunderbird 3.0)
- Tinderbox for comm-central tree (Thunderbird 3.next)
- Tinderbox for try server (Thunderbird try)
- Viewing and searching Mozilla source code online
Development Plans
- Thunderbird Status
- 3.1 back end plans
- Features expected to work on in next few months
- Experimental feature-development add-ons
- Feedback & Ideas for Messaging Add-ons (Mozilla Labs)
- Moving to libxul
- Standard8's (aka Mark Banner) MozillaWiki page It typically has "thoughts in progress" sections on changes being considered.
- tb-planning is a moderated mailing list to "offer an easy, transparent venue for getting constructive, Thunderbird-related work done".
- Thunderbird project page
- Thunderbird status meetings
Specifications
- AutoComplete
- AutoConfiguration
- Encryption technologies
- Gloda
- HTML Sanitizer
- LDAP support
- Mail UE Specs
- Mail/News Engineering page
- Message Reader
- Message Threading
- NSS shared database
- SSL error codes
- 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
