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emphasize self-support and volunteering
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== Overview of how and where to get help ==
* While we We will do our best to help you with your problem, but please remember that Thunderbird is a '''free and open''' source project. This means that - in addition to being able to provide ** Thunderbird free of charge - many of but our activities (particularly support, documentation and customization) are mostly all '''volunteer''' efforts. Given that we We don't have the resources of a commercial software company, . So we rely on our users and our community to volunteer to help each other via open channels i.e. '''our support knowledgebase''' at http://support.mozillamessaging.com and '''our English language support forum''': https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird. There are no other official support channels i.ePlease consider helping a fellow user today. ** '''we We do not offer paid, telephone, email,fax, or chat support for Thunderbird'''. ** Please [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/thunderbird ask a question], but you may also need to put effort into researching the problem yourself using google, the [http://support.mozillamessaging.com knowledge base] and other methods at your disposal.
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* In addition, to the official sources cited above there are many unofficial, community support channels on the Internet for Thunderbird; most notably the ones at MozillaZine including their [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=50 forums] and [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base knowledge base]. You And again, you can often find even more support resources via a Google search. For [[Thunderbird/Support/Community support based on languages|non English language Thunderbird forum support, please consult our wiki page with a list of non English language Thunderbird support forums]].
== Thunderbird documents of interest ==
* [[Thunderbird/Support/MailServiceProviderOutagesAndBugs|Informal list of Mail Service Provider Outages and Bugs]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/SupportExtensionPRD|Spec for a Thunderbird Support Extension]]
 
== Thunderbird documents of interest (need updating for SUMO) ==
* [[Thunderbird/Support/GetSatisfaction|Get Satisfaction]] - Notes and processes for [http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging Thunderbird Community Support using Get Satisfaction].
* [[Thunderbird/Support/Workflow]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/GetSatisfaction/BoilerPlate|BoilerPlate responses for Get Satisfaction]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/GetSatisfaction/TaggingConventions|how to tag in Get Satisfaction]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/SuMoMoTestPlan|SuMoMo Test Plan]]
* [[Thunderbird/Response text|BoilerPlate for responses to emails from potential Thunderbird contributors]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/SupportExtensionPRD|Spec for a Thunderbird Support Extension]]
=== Obsolete documents: ===
* [[Thunderbird/Support/SuMoMoTestPlan|SuMoMo Test Plan]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/SupportCommunityVideoIntroScript|2 minute intro to Thunderbird Support Community Video]]
* [[Thunderbird/Support/Thunderbird3/SupportPlan|Thunderbird 3 Support plan]]
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