Comments on: How to install Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu 10.10/10.04/9.10/9.04/8.10/8.04 Using Ubuntuzilla PPA

By: Paul Lamar

Paul Lamar — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:22:46 +0000

I am having the same problem
my password on earthlink.web mail
but does not work in Thunderbird

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:25:52 +0000

All right! Thanks admin Good work!

By: Les Korodi

Les Korodi — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:38:58 +0000

Use Mint

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:08:33 +0000

@Tom

Updated article with ubuntuzilla PPA

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:28:12 +0000

Can someone please FIX this article? It’s causing a lot of problems for people!

Was trying to book a flight ticket and everything went fine until the card verification process which requires java. The internet here is really slow also so maybe by the time ubuntuzilla is finished downloading the ticket might be sold to someone else. Also I have to go trough the whole booking process AGAIN. Rather annoyed at the moment.

Thanks to everyone who suggested ubuntuzilla btw! Good work

By: David

David — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:14:32 +0000

Yeah the standard procedure fails since thunderbird is now at version 3.1.5 but you can use synaptic once you have added the key as per this page.

It’s worth noting that thunderbird 3 breaks all your old email settings including address book entries for those who are thinking of upgrading.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:05:19 +0000

After upgrading to Lucid, Thunderbird starts complaining that mail passwords fail. The solution is to delete signons.sqlite which the upgrade creates but doesn’t properly set up. On next launch, Tbird will re-build the db using your existing signons3.txt file (the Tbird 3 way of saving passwords). Naturally, this assumes you were using Tbird 3 before, so make sure you have signons3.txt in your default Thunderbird directory before following this fix.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:13:19 +0000

ubuntuzilla or waiting for a dist-upgrade is the way it works well

By: Theerath

Theerath — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:42 +0000

So now - with all these differing opinions; I am totally stumped as newbie user! Can we not have a expert from Ubuntu give clarification? How to have a secure & working mail client?

By: j8a

j8a — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:41:38 +0000

Thunderbird-3.1 is beta, it not works.
I recommend Thunderbird-3.0 with the same recipe.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:32:12 +0000

Can someone please update this post. The correct “easy way” is to use ubuntuzilla.

The problem with all these “me too” how-to’s is that you really mess up people trying to find correct information. In this case, you’ve damaged their working web browser and email client by dropping the Mozilla daily builds on their machines.

Community - we need to do a better job of keeping the real Ubuntu documentation/wiki up to date.

How To “fan sites” - stop trying to pump up your ad revenue with quantity versus quality “guidance” and show some responsibility…EXPLAIN what these choices mean and that the person will NOT be running released versions of the applications.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:57:09 +0000

Adding some info here:
1) removing the PPA: “the PPA in this post also has some Firefox daily builds (and further “Shredder” daily builds) so if you don’t wish to use these, simply remove the ubuntu-mozilla-daily PPA after installing Thunderbird. To do this, go to System > Administration > Software Sources, on the second tab called “Other software”, look for “http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/…” and uncheck it.”

2) installing Thunderbird 3 from the TAR file downloaded from Mozilla’s site:

http://www.patrickmicka.com/uncategorized/mozilla-thunderbird-3/

Next, open a terminal and enter the following two commands to extract the archive you just downloaded:

cd ~/Desktop
tar xfvj thunderbird-3.0.tar.bz2

After you’ve unpacked the archive enter the following command to move it to a more convenient location:

sudo mv ./thunderbird /opt/

Everything should be in order now, so let’s move to the directory and make sure it works:

cd /opt/thunderbird/

Finally, run the following command to launch Thunderbird:

./thunderbird

Patrick’s link also easy directions to create a shortcut.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:26:50 +0000

I second Anders Friberg’s request: how to remove the ppa above since there was no indication this would alter existing firefox installation? Kudos to dunbrokin’s suggestion.

By: Anders Friberg

Anders Friberg — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:48:26 +0000

…accidentally got shredder too but seems to work…

By: Anders Friberg

Anders Friberg — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:10:19 +0000

Hmmm… same problem here. How do I remove this ppa above and reinstall firefox 3.5 in the most convenient way? Preferably without having to reinstall add-ons.

Best regards
Anders

By: DeKa

DeKa — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:35:23 +0000

Hi,

Thunderbird-3.1 is Alpha!!!!

Thunderbird-3.0 is correct.

Gruß DeKa

By: dunbrokin

dunbrokin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:27:09 +0000

I think it would be good if we had some guidance and warnings when you post suggestion like this. Perhaps we could do with more quality control.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:30:54 +0000

Ran thru install. Loaded itself as Shredder 3.1, and reverted Firefox to Shiretoko. When starting and setting up account for gmail it errors out (after successfully finding the servers and verifying the password). “Error creating account, incoming server already exists.” Won’t go any further no matter how I start over.

By: Norbert

Norbert — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:36:49 +0000

Same issue here: using the daily repo my firefox upgraded to an unstable version and there were really few plugins usable with thunderbird.

I disinstalled and used ubuntuzilla instead.

Firefox and thunderbird are stable versions and there are more plugin for thunderbird 3.0

By: dan

dan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:03:36 +0000

Just wanted to echo what others are saying--I also had to retreat to 3.0; Password retrieval not working----