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with TB 52+ instead of the numbers you can also write strings like "html" or "text" which are not case sensitive."format" : compose the message in HTML ("format=1") or plain text ("format=2") *."newsgroups" : one or more news groups to submit the message to *.
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"bcc" : used to specify the email of the recipient of a blind copy of the mail *."cc" : used to specify the email of the recipient of a copy of the mail."to" : used to specify the email of the recipient.The following arguments for this option are available: You have to use the command line option "-compose" to launch Thunderbird and open a new compose window. For example: thunderbird.exe -mail The "-addressbook" command line argument opens the address book. You can't specify the URL for a folder, only for a specific message. Select the message in Thunderbird, enter var hdr = alert((hdr)) in the error console and press the evaluate button to get a popup with the URL. The -mail URL command line argument opens the message whose URL you specified.For example, "C:\Program Files\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" c:\test.eml This will launch Thunderbird with a window displaying the contents of the. The -migration command line argument opens import wizard which help with import data from Outlook (Express) and Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey.Note however that you normally cannot start Thunderbird with a second profile if Thunderbird is already running. A quick sanity check is that e:\my_profile should contain your prefs.js file. Example: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -profile e:\my_profile will launch Thunderbird with the profile stored at e:\my_profile. Its useful if you're a roaming user or Thunderbird somehow lost track of your profile (perhaps due to your system crashing) and you want to verify the profile is still good before trying to fix the problem. It's described in more detail in the writeup on USB drive support but it does not require a USB drive. It's used to run Thunderbird with the specified profile regardless of whether the Profile Manager knows about that profile's existence. The -profile "path" (or -P "path") command line argument to specify the location of the profile.It's used for a number of troubleshooting or system administration tasks such as running in Safe Mode. Command line arguments for the extension manager.You can use -compose message_options to have it bring up the compose message window and fill in everything for you, but you still need to press the Send button to actually send the message. Notice the syntax section at the bottom of that writeup. The -install-global-extension and -install-global-theme arguments have been removed from Gecko 1.9.2 and later versions. However, you need to figure out what version of Gecko your version of Thunderbird uses to see if some of those command line arguments aren't available. All of the Mozilla command line arguments that aren't browser specific.Thunderbird supports the following command line arguments: