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TB Portable adds some new emails at the bottom of old emails

Submitted by mlun on November 5, 2008 - 3:37am

This may sound weird, and I simply do not understand how/why it happens. But for some reason TB occasionally presents new incoming emails at the bottom of an old email. To give an example I received yesterday an email seemingly a copy of an email I previously received 16th April 2008, but with the new email added at the bottom. The new email displays the old emails date, but of course gets a new "Order Received" number.

cant tell which address I sent from on email header in sent folder

Submitted by inlandsurfer1 on November 3, 2008 - 4:16pm

I have a bunch of emails from various accounts that are in my sent box on local folders. I am trying to reorganize and put them into sent boxes for the individual accounts. My problem is that the email box just says my name and not what account I sent them from. Is there anyway I can fix this?

Profile Wiped

Submitted by usera on November 3, 2008 - 2:29am

I had this strange problem where I was trying to access a samba share who's folder was not created cause my entire windows xp system to be practically freeze to a point where I had to reboot.

However on reboot I noticed the two portable apps firefox/thunderbird which was running at the time had their complete profile wiped clean! Lost all account information in thunderbird and firefox lost all passwords...

Luckily I had a backup over 2 months ago but anyone know how this happened and what's the proper way to prevent this from happening.

Text Box instead of Graphics in Emails

Submitted by Carl74 on October 30, 2008 - 5:23pm

I'm using the U3 version of Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on XP SP3. Instead of graphics embedded in emails, I get a text box. Is there an option so that I can get the email as the sender intended? I have a high speed internet connection so bandwidth is not a consideration.

I suppose when I use the U3 Flash Drive on a computer with dial-up, I would want to be able to return to the text box option.

Help setting Thunderbird Portable as default email program

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Submitted by Mickeyj4j on October 30, 2008 - 6:15am

how can i set up thunderbird portable as the default email program in xp.

I found an app that will set any browser to default including FFP

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultbrowser.htm

it would be nice to have an APP for setting email programs just the same.

If you know of the program or any other solution can you help me.

English dictionary keeps vanishing

Submitted by Dauphinflyer on October 26, 2008 - 8:52am

Hello Chaps,

On my portable TB which I have been running now for more than 2 years and has always been updated to the latest version. But either because of the latest version being 2.0.0.17 or because I have just started using Vista at home (still XP at work)I have been suffering from the vanishing English (British) dictionary. I also have the U.S. version and the German dictionary. Has anyone experienced this before?

Regards DF

How to force a POP download?

Submitted by JimND on October 24, 2008 - 6:12pm

I've just moved over to Thunderbird from Pegasus mail, and am using version 2.0.0.17 (20080914). I have some notes on my mailserver that I can't force to download.

According to the main Thunderbird site, deleting x:\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\Mail\/popstate.dat should force a reload, and the dat file should have all sorts of info in there. The file doesn't have anything in it except a warning not to edit, and deleting it does nothing. None of the dat files for other pop servers contain anything either.

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