I had a need to archive email to a CD / DVD and include a mail client to read the contents. I copied the ThunderbirdPortable.ini for running from CD off the support page and added an autorun.inf to make life simple for the user, it works great.
Just pop in the DVD and quite a while later you're reading email. My thanks to all the supporters of this software.
For anyone trying to do the same, be aware start up can be very slow (5 minutes or more for ~500 Mb of data); I'm not sure if this is typical or dependent on the size of the mail data. This made testing a bit of a pain because a bad CD/DVD (scratch or bad burn) can hang, but I wanted to let anyone else who wants to do try something similar that it does work.
The startup time is fine for an archive, and thunderbird portable was only solution I've been able to find. Thanks again to everyone who has supported Thunderbird and PortableApp.
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Greetings!
Looks the same!
But unfortunately You are right, it seems it copies the whole to the hdd.
I have a few accounts with several Gigs in it. At least sometimes it would be fine to read from the DVD instead of to copy the whole to the hdd.
(I used it with the Portable Apps menu, and a 7zip..)
It asked at first time to copy the whole to the drive or not?
If the 'no' was chosen - it did an exit. Quite annoying with gigs of data to wait that much.
Is there a trick to make it "real Live"?
(With other language, and some settings and a few extensions what I want to use on the DVD)
Anyhow! Best Wishes!
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RudyD
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RudyD