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How To Thunderbird as Limited User... problematic

Submitted by Portabelly on May 25, 2011 - 10:01pm

Hello.

System: Windows XP Home

What is the proper way to install Thunderbird portable so a limited user can
use Thunderbird ?

I am experiencing the following difficulties after install as Admin, and as User.

1. Under a User account, Thunderbird will not remember 3rd party Firewall settings
(Comodo Firewall) it thinks Thunderbird is new each time. I am launching with
"Run As" administrator account.

2. If I launch Thunderbird without Run As administrator, a security warning pops up
and Thunderbird is locked.

Restart of Thunderbird internal command is ok?

Submitted by maki_33 on May 13, 2011 - 4:36am

Hi,
i know from the installed TB installation the restart option i.e. after installing a new addon. In my imagine the portableapp version could be influence the behaviour (settings will not be stored or registry entries were not removed, something like that).

So my question: Is it ok to restart TP-portable with the TB internal given command? Or should i close TB-portable compeletely and start the program again afterwards.

Let me ask a question with little overlap to Firefox-PP :). Same question about that program.

Thx in advance

Migrating from U3 to PortableApps

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Submitted by gonzo411 on May 3, 2011 - 2:04pm

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.

ICS attachments

Submitted by Aqualung on April 29, 2011 - 12:53pm

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.)

To all of you experiencing slow performance

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Submitted by Hamad on April 27, 2011 - 8:43pm

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

Submitted by Esgrimidor on April 25, 2011 - 10:17am

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

Moving or encrypting profile

Submitted by amused on April 24, 2011 - 6:42pm

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?

Need help at account setup to work on domain computer and home computer

Submitted by firescythe on April 19, 2011 - 6:37am

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.

Archiving by year

Submitted by comtech5 on April 15, 2011 - 9:17pm

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.

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