Debian IceDove kicks the bucket after Thunderbird revisits Debian Repositories

The Genesis of Iceweasel/IceDove was due to the cute little logo of Firefox which was copyrighted under terms that didn&rsquo t fit Debian&rsquo s free software guidelines, the DFSG. Hence, as a solution to the conundrum, Debian started to ship Firefox without its Logo.

Icedove is an unbranded Thunderbird mail client suitable for free distribution. It supports different mail accounts (POP, IMAP, Gmail), has an integrated learning Spam filter, and offers easy organization of mails with tagging and virtual folders. Also, more features can be added by installing extensions.

To see all bug reports that are related to the Icedove -> Thunderbird migration you can look at all bugs tagged by icedeove-thunderbird-migration. To add additional bug reports you can simply use bts.

In case something is misbehaving on your side it's good to know if the problem is in Thunderbird or in some (or more) extensions. You can check this by starting Thunderbird in safe mode, which will disable all extensions for that specific session. If Thunderbird is working now normally the problem is typically in one or more extensions. You can start Thunderbird from a CLI with the following call to start in safe mode.

$ thunderbird --safe-mode

You can always install any extension within your local profile. The Thunderbird maintainers have no control over such extensions as the user has installed them. You need to take care of such extensions on your own.

If the extension is installed from the Debian archive you will probably need to report a bug against this package. If you are unsure, contact the Thunderbird maintainers; we will guide you and push the problem to the correct people if possible.