


This guide will show step-by-step instructions for setting up E-mail on Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. You may now click on Cancel and then close Thunderbird's main window, or add a brand-new account if this is what you want to do next.HostMonster Web Hosting Help Email Application Setup - Mozilla Thunderbird Just click on the default (or Default User) profile name, make sure that Work offline is unchecked and that Use the selected profile without asking at startup is checked, then click on Start Thunderbird.

Thunderbird will automatically create a new folder for such new user/profile and will also create the profiles.ini file again.Ĥ.3 You will be taken back to Thunderbird's main Profile Manager window.

At Enter new profile name, replace Default User with default (or leave it as it is, if you prefer to keep the default name suggested by Thunderbird) and then click on Finish. Click on Create Profile and then Next.Ĥ.2. and then created a new default profile by following these simple steps:Ĥ.1. I also deleted the file that stores all Thunderbird profiles: rm ~/.thunderbird/profiles.iniįinally, I started Thunderbird's profile manager: thunderbird -P default, is matched/selected by the above command. it doesn't matter how many characters the filename has, nor which characters it contains (numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase letters etc.): any file with any name, ending with the file extension. Hence, *.default means all files ending with. home/myusername/) and the * symbol means a string of as many characters as necessary. The ~ (tilde) symbol is a shortcut to your home folder (e.g. Then I deleted all (hidden) Thunderbird's profile folders with this shell command: rm -r ~/.thunderbird/*.default So I had to manually perform something a bit more extreme with the help of the shell terminal.įirst, I opened a new shell terminal window ( Ctrl Alt T usually works on Ubuntu and its "flavors" e.g. Unfortunately, Thunderbird's interface was not letting me do it. perform a complete mail accounts "clean up"). I wanted to delete all mail accounts in Thunderbird but not delete Thunderbird itself (i.e.
