Thunderbird Portable

I have read something of similar problems but never a real solution - when I load TB and a couple of other apps, I get the error "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert disk into drive \Device\Harddisk4\DR81, options Cancel, Try Again or Continue. As I hit Cancel I get alternating messages which are similar referencing Harddisk5. This only happens on my home PC and only started recently - my work laptop and personal laptop do not do this. The common answer seems to be "live with it" but it is annoying and a lack of fix is irritating.

My Thunderbird (3.1.7) works great - except for one thing:

when outside the office I have to use VPN to reach our mail server; works fine for incoming mail, but for some reason the outgoing mail SMTP-server cannot be accessed! We compared this with a stand alone installation of the same Thunderbird version and the SMTP-connection works for colleagues that use standalone version but not in the portable installation. Any ideas for the cause - and any solutions?

Otto, Kuopio, Finland

When using Thunderbird Portable, if I click on a link included in an email. Thunderbird opens the default browser on the system I'm using. I'd prefer it to open the portable browser on my thumb-drive. Is there any way to change that behavior?

I installed the app on a thumb drive and added my initial account, which worked fine. Then when I tried adding another it duplicated my original and seemed to tie it into it so that I was not able to get the changes I tried making to the settings to stick. I tried this multiple times (the assisted way and the manual way) and it kept duplicating the default account in place of the new one.

Anyone experiencing this? Any suggested solutions? Would I have been luck with the legacy version?

Thanks.

I am the same person who wrote the https://portableapps.com/node/26023 entry.

The reason for my downloading TB 3.1.7 Rev2 was that my TB 3.1.4 gave this message when I tried to run it earlier today:

XUL Runner
Error: App: Name not specified in application.ini

As I retained TB 3.1.4 in a separate disk, I can use it instead of TB 3.1.7 Rev2, if someone helps me to resolve the above 'XUL Runner' issue.

I have just installed TB 3.1.7 Rev2. When I tried to run it I got this message:

Thunderbird could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist. Please contact the author about this problem.

I downloaded and installed again but I still got the same result.

What would the problem be please?

Paul

Summary of set up :

Kingston 8gb USB Thumbdrive running Portable apps
Thunderbird 3.1.7

Summary of problem

OK, so my PC decided to spectacularly crash on Xmas Eve (date not important!), and after a quick reboot of the PC and successful re-start of portable apps and Thunderbird Portable 3.1.7 I noticed ALL of my work emails going back from January this year (2010) are missing.

I have 2 main inboxes :
Work - Collecting mail from work POP server
Home - Collecting mail from personal Gmail

Hello..
excuse my teribble english

since some days i´ve got the problem, that´s not possible for me to answer a mail.
whem i click the answer button, teh mail is open, but i can´t write anything inside the writing-box.

anyone an idea? If you answer, remember my bad englisch

when TB portable.send email create nsemail.eml on C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\...

send email

and delete this file and another files (nscopy.tmp - etc)

*****

i recovery this file i read total email send

i search solution for redirect this file or disable but not find solutions

help
thanks

Ever since upgrading to Thunderbird Portable 3+, I noticed that something goes wrong whenever I plug my memory-stick into an offline machine: Every IMAP folder disappears, and only leaves an empty Inbox.

It does, however, remember which accounts I have installed.

All the mail seems to be present in Data\Profiles.

Deleting the header index files (.msf) doesn't seem to do the trick.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate (offline machine), and Windows XP SP2 (online machine, internet cafe).

Any ideas?