How can I download all messages in my inbox to a CD?

I want to download my entire inbox to a CD. There are >600 messages, so I cannot do them one at a time. Is there a bulk way to do it?

This depends rather on what format you want to use to store the messages.
The safest route IMHO is to use the Thunderbird native .eml file format, which as far as possible stores your messages verbatim, including attachments. The downside is that you need an email client, such as Thunderbird, so be able to see the .eml files. Whilst eml is supposedly an industry standard, MS's email clients don't handle it well, so your store would not be useful to a huge proportion of the world's computer users.
Other options are to export your messages to plain text (which loses all the graphical content) or HTML format (which isn't always entirely accurate), or just to copy the mail store files, which are a variant of a standard known as mbox files.
The other consideration is your reason for placing messages on the CD. Is it to be able to refer to them, whiilst perhaps releasing space on your HDD, or is it a back-up against hardware failure? Each of these has an influence of the choice of methodology. Alternatively, if you want to move these messages to another computer, copying the whole profile might be a productive route.
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb Thunderbird profile article]
For most of these export options, I'd be looking at the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/ ImportExportTools] add-on, which if you choose plain text or HTML, can also build index files which you can view in a browser. Recent versions also allow attachments to be preserved.
http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html
Beware! A Thunderbird profile can often be several gigabytes in size, and won't necessarily fit on a standard data DVD.

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