Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition

real email, on the go™

Mozilla Thunderbird®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. You can also add in GPG and Enigmail to encrypt and sign your email.

- Support PortableApps.com's development and hosting

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition works best with the PortableApps.com Platform

Also Available: Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition Beta

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

For help getting up and running, visit Thunderbird Portable Support:

• Installing Thunderbird Portable
• Using Thunderbird Portable
• Upgrading Thunderbird Portable
• Adding GPG and Enigmail
• Adding the Address Book to the PortableApps.com Menu
• Copying your local Thunderbird settings to Thunderbird Portable
• Using a Second (or Third) Profile with Thunderbird Portable
• Improving Thunderbird Portable's Performance
• 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: 2017-08-28
• System Requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher, GnuPG, Enigmail: GPL; Thunderbird: MPL)
• Source Code: Launcher (included), Thunderbird, GPG
• MD5 Hash: 23592947d44292e264e192f94bc09280

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.

Mozilla®, Thunderbird® and the Thunderbird logo are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation and are used with permission.