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Install Thunderbird

Follow these steps to install Thunderbird:

Windows Users: You must have Kerberos for Windows installed on your computer to use Thunderbird. If you haven't done so already, visit the software page and follow the instructions to install Kerberos.
  1. Download Thunderbird to your computer. Once downloaded, do one of the following:
    • Windows: Double-click on the icon to run the installer.
    • Mac: Drag the Thunderbird icon to your Applications folder.

      Note for Mac installations: Do NOT run Thunderbird from the Disk Image! Doing this will cause an infinite restart loop (the symptom of which is a Thunderbird icon that bounces briefly in the Dock then disappears and reappears, bounces and disappears, over and over). To break Thunderbird out of this loop, open a Terminal and type "killall thunderbird-bin" and press Enter. Instead, install Thunderbird to a location you have write access to and try again. When installing on a multi-user limited access system, install it into a shared location as Administrator, run it once and then all users should be able to access it.

Last Updated: 6/2/06