About

As - from my point of view - the command line parameters of Mozilla Thunderbird are somehow incomplete, I wrote a little wrapper with a clearer command line interface to send mails half automated through Thunderbird.
  • just define your mail message text in a separate html file (at least 20.000 characters)
  • call MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird with command line parameters (add multiple receivers, To, CC, BCC, add multiple attachments)  and
    press Send when Thunderbird has opened the message window
Examples included in the setup and on this page
MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird is tested with Thunderbird 2.0 and 3.0

Thunderbird is a trademark of Mozilla Foundation. 
MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird and its author are not an official source of Mozilla.

Download

Installer: MB-CMDMailer4Thunderbird.exe [300 kByte]

MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird needs the .Net Framework 2.0.
If it doesn' t start at all, please download the .Net 2.0 Framework from the Microsoft site and install it.

License

MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird is freeware for non commercial use.

If you use MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird in a commercial enviroment, you have to purchse a license for each workstation, you use it.
The license price is € 15,- (plus VAT).
Please send an email to Mail@Markus-Bader.de for the purchase details.

Documentation and Examples

[Will be completed soon.]

Command line parameters:

-TBPATH <path to the Mozilla Thunderbird application>
-SUBJECT <subject of the mail>
-TO <receiver address - multiple use allowed>
-CC <copy receiver address - multiple use allowed>
-BCC <blind copy receiver address - multiple use allowed>
-MESSAGEFILE <text file with message body [absolute or relative path]>
-ATTACH <path to attachments [absolute or relative path] - multiple use allowed>
-H (shows help window - all other flags will be ignored)

Expert flag (only use, when you know, what you are doing :)

-TBPROFILE <path to alternative profile for Thunderbird>
-R <replacement tag <oldvalue>=<newvalue>>

Examples

  • MB-CommandLineMailerForThunderbird.exe -TO "Markus Bader <Mail@Markus-Bader.de>" -SUBJECT "please add to MB-CommandLineMailerForThunderbird mailing list" -MESSAGEFILE "SimpleExample.html"
  • MB-CommandLineMailerForThunderbird.exe -TO "Markus Bader <Mail@Markus-Bader.de>" -CC "Noreply <NoReply@Markus-Bader.de>" -SUBJECT "this is a complex example" -MESSAGEFILE "ComplexExample.html" -ATTACH "MB-CommandLineMailerForThunderbird.exe" -ATTACH "SimpleExample.html" -ATTACH "SimpleExample.bat"

Mailing List

If you always want to get the latest news about MB-Ruler Pro, then just add yourself to the MB-Ruler mailing list and send a simple mail with the subject

"add to MB-Command Line Mailer for Thunderbird mailing list" to Mail@Markus-Bader.de

(just click on this link).

You will receive an email when new information are available.