Packages Thunderbird

thunderbird

Mozilla's full-featured mail client — the household name

• Version recorded: 140.14.0esr
• Categories: email-clients, workstation
• Upstream: https://www.thunderbird.net/

What it does

Mozilla Thunderbird: mail, calendars, address book and RSS in one long-lived, actively developed open-source client.

Why you would want it

The most widely known open-source mail client, which matters for EMCOMM: in a stress situation, familiar software is a feature. Rich filtering keeps Winlink traffic organised. In the packet/Winlink workflow, messages fetched by PAT land in a local mailbox; a mail client is how a human reads and writes them.

Before it will work

Nothing radio-side. To wire it to Winlink, point it at PAT's mailbox or use PAT's own web UI alongside it -- the packet profile's documentation covers the workflow.

How it installs

• apt: thunderbird

Known problems

Ubuntu has been migrating Thunderbird to snap; on our verified targets (Parrot, Debian, Kali) the apt package is the real application. Measure Ubuntu when its VM exists.

Keeping it current

• probe: apt policy
• strategy: apt_upgrade

Where to get help with the software itself

MZLA/Thunderbird project — support.mozilla.org and an active community.

Source: catalog/packages/thunderbird.yaml