Thunderbird Portable

I have to migrate my old Thunderbird environment from my dying 8GB U3 flash drive to a new Thunderbird environment on a new PortableApps platform on a new 16GB flash drive, and I'm looking for any pointers or advice before I get started.

My old Thunderbird is no longer functional, but I have the old Data and System folders and (so far) have no reason to expect them to be corrupted.

Here's how I got to this point.

I receive .ics (icalendar) attachments in my Thunderbird email. How do I go about adding them to my Lightning calendar please? I tried saving them to my Desktop, and then importing, but that didn't do anything. (see also http://goo.gl/z5urw) Or is this a feature that doesn't work with portable Thunderbird?

Anyone else having this sort of issues?

(Running Thunderbird 3.1.10 with Lightning 1.0b2 in Win7 x64.)

Sorry if this is redundant, but I think I discovered something.

Tbird on a brand new external device was extremely slow...there was atleast a lag of 2 seconds for everything. I was perplexed because this never happened on another external device.

Then I noticed the computer is NTFS format, while the external device was FAT32 format.

I formatted external device to NTFS and now its working fine.

Looking up smtp.gmail.com

I have from several weeks this problem. Sometimes I can't send messages.

My system : windows xp pro sp3
TB version 3.1.9
Antivirus Avast! free version 5.1.889
Windows Firewall

How can I test with a soft if my ISP is blocking SMTP ports ?

email account configuration :

Server Settings :
Server Name : imap.gmail.com
Port 993
User Name accountname@gmail.com
Security Settings : SSL/TLS
Authentication method : Normal Password

Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings
Google Mail - smtp.gmail.com
Description : Google Mail
Server Name : smtp.gmail.com

Hello. I would like to have all personal data (settings and mail itself) encrypted, for which I consider two possibilities. First, moving default profile to partition encripted by third software (which is somehow incompatible with Thunderbird so I cannot launch it from this partition, only - hopefully - store data there). Second, encrypting all user data using Thunderbird Portable itself (or its add-ons). Unfortunately I can't find any info neither on how to change the default profile's location nor on encrypting data by means of TP itself. Could you please give me any hints?

Hello,

I have installed the portable Tbird to an USB pendrive on my home computer. On my home computer I have set up the e-mail account. There is only 1 e-mail account, there is only 1 user. E-mail has arrived, its functionality has been confirmed. I took this pendrive with me to work be able to handle my mailing from work too. At my workplace, the computers are in domain, and I need to use network login, local computer login is not the purpose.

Can someone tell me how to make TB move all my messages that are dated 2010 to an archive folder named 2010? I don't need to save copies of those 2010 msgs in my current inbox folder. The help section is very weak on describing how this is done.

Since the last one or two updates, Global search no longer reliably finds all the the matching messages in folders that are marked for global search access. I have had to resort to using the right click search on individual folders to find what I need to find (even if only in header fields of messages) which is a lot more tedious. Please fix this, restore it to its previous working order or remove the feature.

Now I'm impressed.

One of my biggest bugbears was that portable software should be easily transportable between machines and between upgrades. When you churn through machines at the rate of one or two a year you don't really want to be rebuilding profiles and settings etc.

I used to dread the switch, with an installed "safe" Thunderbird for all my emails that were stored and sorted (carefully over about 15 years) and a "live" portable version for downloading, replying etc, prior to storage.

I have just installed thunderbird on my sandisk cruze pen stic and it has been upgraded to the latest version 3.1.9 i think.

I think what i want is different identites but i may be getting the terminology wrong.