Thunderbird Portable

I've been playing around and may have found a way to 'use' TBP under linux. If you have TB on your Linux computer, use your TBP profile by saying:

cd .mozilla-thunderbird/
rm -rf fej2039jfladfj.default
ln -s /mnt/usb/ThunderbirdPortable/Data/profile fej2039jfladfj.default
thunderbird

The same would work for Firefox, I suppose.
there is only one catch. Don't ever EVER E V E R logout without manually saying

umount /mnt/usb

see the screenshot :
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9540/sshot1ja1.png

I've seen many topics about running these apps on WINE, but I'd like to know from experienced users: How does Thunderbird perform on it, and is it easy to get working?

After I upgraded from 1.5 to 2 the bottom of the screen on all of the Thunderbird windows is a grey block with red text that says

menu id="offlineMenuItem" insert after="trashMenuSeparator" label="&offlineMenu.label;" accesskey="&offlineMenu.accesskey;"

What did I do wrong?

Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5 works great for me. I downloaded and installed Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.9 on my local hard drive.

When I double click ThunderbirdPortable.exe nothing happens. If I watch the task manager, I see ThunderbirdPortable for about a second and then it quits. The splash screen never appears and there are no errors.

I tried renaming renaming Thunderbird.exe and added a .ini file pointing to it, but got the same result. I know the .ini file is working because if I give a bad name for the exe I get an error.

Hi,

I started using TB portable today - works great!

It popped a screen telling me a newer version of TB was available.

As it was not the latest PortableAp I did not do the upgrade.

What would have happened if I did the auto upgrade?

I guess this is a kind of bug - AutoUgrading should refer to the latest Portable Ap available and not the latest TB available.

Thanks

I've got a few portable apps already installed onto my USB flash drive, and I've just downloaded and installed the base of the PA Suite. How do I add ones that I have already installed (e.g TB) into the menu? I don't want to reinstall them because there are settings and data I don't want to lose - like emails in TB.

Does the version of Thunderbird included with the portableapps suite include Enigmail+GPG or is it the standard version?

A week ago for some reason that I don't recall a window appeared to the effect that the filters for mail to the folder "inbox" subfolder "me" would be inactivated. The next day I added the "x" to that filter, and the same the following day. The third day, all filters were missing and the msg filters file was reduced to 1kb.

Today copied the msgfilter file from a backup thumb drive (14kb) and all is fine.

In years of using TB & prior nuances have never had this occur on the desktop. Question what causes this and how to prevent it in the future.

Under Accounts, thunderbird portable allows you to attach an html file as a signature.

The signature attachment path isn't relative to thunderbird, so the drive letters change.

This is the only post I've found outlining the problem: https://portableapps.com/node/1900

Instead of using the drive letter, shouldn't the signatures be stored beneath ThunderbirdPortable\Data somewhere and when you attach the html document the path would be relative to that folder instead of including the full path with drive letter included?