Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition 3 RC 2

real email, on the go™

Mozilla Thunderbird_®, Portable Edition is available packaged with Mozilla Thunderbird 3 RC 2, allowing you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Thunderbird installation. Please note that Thunderbird 3 RC 2 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Thunderbird email client and is being made available for testing purposes only. If you're looking for the stable version, please head to the Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition homepage.

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Install Note: The 3 RC 2 release will install alongside a Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition installation by default in a ThunderbirdPortableTest directory. When you hover over it in the PortableApps.com Menu, it will show as version 3 RC 2. You can rename it to distinguish it from your standard Thunderbird Portable install by right-clicking. The installer supports upgrading existing 2.0 installations by manually changing the install location as well.

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition is an integral part of the PortableApps.com Suite™.

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Features

Mozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, the portable version leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and adress book with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Thunderbird...

Support

Though there is no support specifically for the Test release, most of the standard Thunderbird Portable Support applies:

• Installing Thunderbird Portable
• Using Thunderbird Portable
• Upgrading Thunderbird Portable
• Adding GPG and Enigmail
• Copying your local Thunderbird settings to Thunderbird Portable
• Running from a CD (Thunderbird Portable Live)
• Using Thunderbird with Webmail (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc)
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Additional Recommended Settings
• Version History

You can also post a note in the Thunderbird Portable Support Forum.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: 2009-12-05
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher, GnuPG, Enigmail: GPL; Thunderbird: MPL)
• Source Code: Launcher source (included), Thunderbird source, GPG source, Enigmail source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 9f97a588cf2d903bc3d69a51c397a3f7

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Gerard Balagué (mai9) for the original code handling extension path rewriting (now no longer used) and tracon for some of the original ideas with his fflaunch launcher. Thanks to John Urbaneck for contributing code and ideas to enable GPG support. Thanks as well to FlashBanG and all the folks participating in the mozillaZine forum thread for their ideas, suggestions and support.

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