yantis/thunderbird repository overview

⁠docker-thunderbird

On Docker hub thunderbird⁠ on Github thunderbird⁠

This container is a fork of yantis/docker-thunderbird. Thanks to him for his work on this.

⁠Usage (Remote SSH)

I run this on DigitalOcean and connect to Thunderbird from anywhere I have SSH. Totally boss.

docker run \
    -d \
		--name thunderbird \
    -v $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys:/authorized_keys:ro \
    -p 49158:22 \
    -v ~/appdata/thunderbird:/home/docker/.thunderbird/ \
    ironicbadger/docker-thunderbird

⁠Breakdown (Remote SSH)

This follows these docker conventions:

• -ti will run an interactive session that can be terminated with CTRL+C.
• --rm will run a temporary session that will make sure to remove the container on exit.
• -v $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys:/authorized_keys:ro Optionaly share your public keys with the host. This is particularlly useful when you are running this on another server that already has SSH. Like an Amazon EC2 instance. WARNING: If you don't use this then it will just default to the user pass of docker/docker (If you do specify authorized keys it will disable all password logins to keep it secure).
• -v ~/docker-data/thunderbird:/home/docker/.thunderbird/ This is where to save your config files.
• yantis/thunderbird the default mode is SSH so no need to run any commands.

Here is a screenshot of Thunderbird running on Docker.

⁠Usage (Local)

The recommended way to run this container looks like this. This example launches Thunderbird seamlessly as if it was another program on your computer.

xhost +si:localuser:$(whoami)
docker run \
        -d \
        -e DISPLAY \
        -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
        -u docker \
        -v $HOME/docker-data/thunderbird:/home/docker/.thunderbird/ \
        ironicbadger/docker-thunderbird thunderbird

⁠Breakdown (Local)

$ xhost +si:localuser:yourusername

Allows your local user to access the xsocket. Change yourusername or use $(whoami) or $USER if your shell supports it.

docker run \
           -d \
           -e DISPLAY \
           -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
           -u docker \
           -v /:/host \
           -v $HOME/docker-data/thunderbird:/home/docker/.thunderbird/ \
           ironicbadger/docker-thunderbird thunderbird

This follows these docker conventions:

• -d run in daemon mode.
• -e DISPLAY sets the host display to the local machines display.
• -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro bind mounts the X11 socks on your local machine to the containers and makes it read only.
• -u docker sets the user to docker. (or you could do root as well)
• -v ~/docker-data/thunderbird:/home/docker/.thunderbird/ This is where to save your config files.
• yantis/thunderbird thunderbird You need to call thunderbird because if you do not it will a launch the ssh server instead as a default.