Thunderbird is in the Debian repository

Warning: Be aware when updating to update to the stable release (currently, November 2021, being version 91.3.0). If not, you might update to the beta version and then some extensions might not work anymore. More about versions

When you get unable launch older version on profile it probably means that you have updated to a beta version, removed the beta version and installed the stable version and are now starting the stable version. You can go revert your data back to the stable version by starting thunderbrid with this command:

thunderbird.exe -P --allow-downgrade

Download thunderbird from

http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=Debian

Now you have two options:

• Make a local repository
• Install the package with: dpkg -i

Make a local package repository. See: Setting up package repositories
Copy the downloaded file to

/home/user/deb_files/

and

/home/user/deb_files/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386

Do

cd /home/user/deb_files/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386

Run

dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null | gzip -c --best  > Packages.gz

Do (or use aptitude or synaptic packagemanager)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunderbird

Run

dpkg -i /home/user/deb_files/thunderbird[whatelseisinthename].deb

• Download Thunderbird from Download Thunderbird in your language
• Copy the downloaded Thunderbird tar.bz2 file to /opt
• Run tar -xf thunderbird-[versionnumber].tar.bz2
• Make a launch item in the panel

Do, when installed manually

• chown -R root:users /opt/thunderbird/*
• chown root:users /opt/thunderbird
• chmod -R g+w /opt/thunderbird/*
• chmod -R g+w /opt/thunderbird
• Add the users who need to be able to update to the group “users”

Now Thunderbird can be updated via the Help | About menu items

Make sure the locale settins are right so time and date are displayed in your local, preferred format

Wikipedia about Usenet
Set up an account:

• Edit > Account Settings > Left column: Account Actions > Add Newsgroup Account…
• Enter name and an invalid e-mail address and click “Next”
  • The e-mail address becomes public and therefore can attract a lot of spam
• Newsgroup Server: Enter the address of the newsgroup like in: news.somewhere.com and click “Next”
• Account Name: Enter the address of the newsgroup like in: news.somewhere.com and click “Next”
• Check the entries and if correct click “Next”
• Server settings
  • Check “Always request authentication when connecting to this server” if passwords are needed for access
• Copies & Folders
  • Archive Options: 'Yearly'; 'Keep existing folder structure of archived messages'. Click 'OK'
• P.M. Composition and Addressing
• Right click on the server name
  • Click on “Subscribe”
  • Wait until the list of newsgroups is loaded. This can take a while.
    • If no reaction close the window and start over with “Right click on the server name”
  • Select the groups to join
  • Select the number of messages to load
  • Close the window

They can lead to crashes of other programs and / or a slow computer

Mozilla forum
Memory Usage Problems
Idea's to resolve Performance issues
Hangs with high constant CPU load and increasing memory usage
High CPU

The file's, for an IMAP account:

./ImapMail/mail.domain.nl/msgFilterRules.dat

These are editable

It seems that reminders can be no sooner than 30 days before the Event or Task starts

Our experiences

• We started Thunderbird with Lightning with about 800 calendar- and task items
• Thunderbird crashed when it ran out of memory, which is in our case 18GB.
• We extended our swap space with an other 20GB
• We saw up to 18 GB of RAM and swap space usage. Thunderbird was not stable and did not work at all
• We removed the Lightning extension {someuuid} from /home/user/.thunderbird/hash_profilename/extensions/
• Thunderbird operated normally
• We stopped Thunderbird and moved the Lightning extension back
• We removed the database /home/user/.thunderbird/hash_profilename/calendar-data/local.sqlite
• We started Thunderbird again
• We had to approve the “new” Lightning extension. Everything worked fine. Lightning too *

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