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thunderbird portableapps moving, deleting and viewing mail really slow

Submitted by tolland on May 20, 2008 - 8:50am

Hi,

I have thunderbird portable running against a dovecot IMAP server on fedora core 6. It has recently got progressively slower until now its almost unusable. Initially I thought this was a problem with dovecot, so I spent some time checking dovecot performance and indexes. However I have tried connecting to my IMAP mail server using Outlook express, evolution on linux and from a Horde/IMP webmail account, and these are all acceptable performance times and it seems to be that thurderbird is the culprit.

Start Thunderbird for U3 through an external application

Submitted by amsa01 on May 19, 2008 - 8:55am

Hi
I use Adobes Lightroom to keep track of my pictures.
In Lightroom there is a solution for sending E-mails with pictures.
Lightroom therefore wants me to point out the exe-file for my standard E-mail application.
Since I uses Thunderbird for U3 on my USB-stick as my email application I tried to point that out. But with no luck
With the exe:s I tried I either I get an error message saying there is something wrong with my Thunderbird-exe or else a new session of Thunderbird starts, thinking it is the first time I start Thunderbird.

Unable to use tb at work

Submitted by tinker on May 18, 2008 - 4:40pm

After reading about portable apps in a magazine I thought I would give it a try using thunderbird portable on my usb stick. I already have tb on my main pc and am able to download messages. I used the same settings on the usb and am able to use tb portable on my home pc, but I cannot access my email at work. I'm wondering if I should have set it up on my usb differently or if it is a work access problem?

Portability with Thunderbird Portable

Submitted by QuarrellaDevil on May 18, 2008 - 3:02pm

I saw quite a few posts on a search that hovered around what I'm doing, but I'd like to describe my setup so as to get a little feedback. I considered posting this over at Mozilla, but given that my Portable Thunderbird is at the center of things, I came here. Mods, just holler if you prefer something different.

I run Portable Thunderbird on an external drive, doing most of my work from work on a Win32 system. Works great, and at home, when I'm on a Win32 system, it's just more of the same. All my mail is on the external drive, which I back up on a regular basis.

Thunder Bird help(question from german forum)

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Submitted by Nathan9222 on May 18, 2008 - 12:34am

Hello!
Recently my Thunderbird Portable mail is no longer down (from GMX), but the following message comes up: "Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox. "
Enough space is available---here I dont understand the second part.
Can anyone help?
bebuquin

Edit: the original from https://portableapps.com/node/13439

Tbird Portable crashes when links are clicked

Submitted by JustinCase on May 16, 2008 - 9:40am

My Tbird crashes, freezes up when, but not always but mostly, a link is clicked on. I did a register cleaning and it seemed to help for a few hours, but then the same problem returned. I did an adware and spyware search and nothing turned up. I also did virus scan and found nothing.

Sometimes it takes forever for the link to open up and Tbird will work after wards, but mostly it just freezes up on the link click.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Random mail movement and duplication

Submitted by BarryB on May 13, 2008 - 11:14pm

Every few weeks or sometimes months I see a very strange set of conditions. I will find that large numbers of mails have been either either moved/copied into other folders or duplicated multiple times or both things together.

I never seem to lose any data, but it's a pain trying to sort it out.

These aren't folder that are even close to adjacent in the stack, so it's not finger trouble on my part.

Any one else experienced this or are the aliens who steal all the odd socks just persecuting me?

BB

Copying Certain Emails

Submitted by eltonbrad on May 12, 2008 - 11:59am

Hi,

I have been using Thunderbird Portable for the last few months, now I've installed Thunderbird (not portable) onto my computer, I was wondering how I can geg certain emails from the Thunderbird Portable folder into the local Thunderbird folder.

I'd really appreciate it if anyone can help me out!

Shortcut Keys for Thunderbird

Submitted by Bentoutofshape on May 12, 2008 - 9:21am

Hello,
Can anyone let me know how to stop all the shortcut keys on Thunderbird Portable 2.0.0.14?
I seem to hit the control and s keys a lot meaning that the message is saved in the Drafts folder.
Since I do not use the shortcuts I would like to cancel them all or at least the Save function as described above.
thanks

Compatibility of ReminderFox with T-Bird Portable

Submitted by JonBoy on May 12, 2008 - 7:55am

I've just added Reminderfox v1.7 to T-BirdPortable (no other T-Bird on the machine) and would like to specify the start page to be the "Reminder List" as mentioned in the installation notes at http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/installation.html

I confess that I don't know what chrome is all about or how references to it should work but chrome://reminderfox/content/addreminder-dialog.xul doesn't do the business for me. According to extensions.rdf, "Options" and "About" seem to be .xul in chrome and they work OK.

How should I specify this "path" in T-Bird so as to retain portability?

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