Thunderbird Portable

last year we changed in our company from Eudora to Thunderbird.
Some clients had also the need for encryption, so Enigmail and gpg did the trick.
I'm now testing the Portable apps version of Thunderbird+Enigmail+GPG. It works fine, but I wan't to make it a littlebit more for our company needs (We install our client pc's unattended, so the less interaction the better).
Is it possible to get some guidelines to get the sources, how to edit them and create a new installer ?

Thanks in advance,

Okay, guys, before you get your hopes up, I'm only posting this because I need to ask a question. I'm not "officially" back yet.

I suppose this question is directed more at John, but if anyone else can correctly answer this for me, go right ahead!

Thunderbird reads from an external file for your signature; there's no option to directly enter one. So is there a way that I can have my signature on my key and still reliably use the file? If the drive letter changes, the absolute path that Thunderbird puts in the box after selecting a file will no longer work. I realize that I could probably manually enter a relative path; however, I'm not sure what it would be relative to, if it would even work.

Peace upon you ....

I'm using Thunderbird from many years ago, I've conveyed whole my data form standard TB to Portable TB (from 1 year ago), but the size of my data became so big (2,3 GB), so it's too difficult to put whole data on my USB stick .

My question :
I need to make archive file for my old data to keep them on my hard-disk and ship the other data on my USB stick ?

Remarks :
1- I've put in my data sub-folders and Message filters
2- sorry for my stupid question, but i think the solving of this problem can do here.

Hi John.

I don’t know whether this is actually a bug or not. Even more so I don’t know if it is specific to Portable Thunderbird or not.

Since upgrading to 1.5.0.5. I had a lot of trouble getting it to work properly. I could send and receive mail but when I tried to open it I just got an “alert” message saying that the path I was actually using was not available. I could follow the path and it was indeed the one I was using.

After struggling with it for quite some time I have eventually discovered what the problem was. It’s a strange one ! :o)

On my flash drive I sometimes put “##” at the end of folder names so I can easily find them amongst a long list. I have always had ## at the end of my Portable Thunderbird folder as I regularly check it.

I was wondering if there was a way to use Thunderbird portable on my jumpdrive on any computer and not having my local setting stored on my computer, but instead on my jump drive.

After using Portable Tbird for several weeks, I decided to install the full Tbird into my harddisk permanently. The question is: how do I migrate all my settings and emails from Portable Tbird to my full Tbird?

is there a way to automatically sync the addresss books of my desktop copy of thunderbird and the portable one?

Copied a copy of portable Thunderbird onto a 2GB USB Flash stick .. and then copied my profiles from my desktop installed version of (full) Thunderbird ...

Getting email from my accounts is working great ...

I also have several RSS/XML feeds that are working fine on the desktop version of Thunderbird ... BUT ... the PTB reports(in the bottom status message area) "Http;//blah blah blah.com/rss.php is not a valid RSS feed" ...

Several feeds are .php/RSS/XML files ... and ARE working OK on the desktop but not on PTB ...

Any ideas?

GaryW

I've just started using Portable Thunderbird and things are going fairly well.

It's a little slower than I'd like, but that could be just the old drive I'm using for the time being.

One thing that isn't working is the notification that Thunderbird puts next to folders that have new items within. In 'Desktop Thunderbird' the little satellite dish is highlighted with an orange star whenever there are new unread items within a folder. In Pocket Tbird, the change only happens once I click on a folder. That is, I get the 'highlighted' state, but only after clicking the folder, which otherwise looks like all the others.

As I only have a 2GB stick, and intend using portable app.s to do most of my sensitive work from hereon in, I am a little obsessive about space. Running a check for duplicate files (identical CRCs), I found around 14MB of them on my stick already. Here's a shot listing some of the biggest:
http://maxqnzs.com/screenshots/duplicates.jpg

Is there a safe way to remove some of these, to maximise space on my stick?