Thunderbird Portable

(Win7 Home Premium 64-bit)

I can no longer directly access my main address book which is located in abook.mab via Tools/Address Book. The only address book available via Tools/Address Book is Personal Address Book with 32 entries -- but not abook.mab which has 107 KB of addresses. I can see abook.mab using Explorer in the proper directory; and (b) when typing in email addresses the auto-complete function is accessing data from that file.

Thunderbird message filters

How can I examine and revise the good state of thunderbird message filters ?

How can I identify the filters that don't function well ?

Best Regards

I have TB portable 3.1.2 -- after upgrading from the previous version, the links in the Add-Ons menu for Get More Extensions, Get More Themes, MozillaZine, MozDev no longer do anything. I tried downloading and running a fresh copy of the installer just in case the original was damaged but it didn't make any difference.

I'd like to get more add-ons and maybe one or two different themes, but the only way to do that now is via Firefox. Not a big deal, but slightly less convenient.

Does anyone know where can I find the older version, the 3.1.2 seems to not work properly for me, I can't change/delete emails from the imap accounts.
Hopefully a 3.1 version, as I did see the older 2.* versions on sourceforge.

I am getting too many file errors on my USB thumbdrive when accessing T'bird Portable on my Win7 64bit machine.
* I always use "Safely Remove Hardware"
* There are almost always 1 or 2 file errors after dismount.
* File errors are mostly in the Address book, but not always.
* The last one wiped the profile and even restoring the "Data" directory did not get it back, I needed to re-install T'bird Portable.
* USB Drive is Kingston 32 Gig with FAT32 file system.
* Running the same USB on WinXP 32bit works just fine, never any file problems.

Fail downloading emails from gmail

The account don't download all my emails from my gmail accounts.

How can I do ?

Best Regards

I have been trying to send mail using smtp.gmail.com with all variations without any success. Can somebody tell me the setup? I can't find it on the Internet.

I have the same account set up on the regular Mozilla Thunderbird and it works fine. The setup is smtp.gmail.com, port 587 with secure connection set to TLS among others like "No", "TLS, if available", "TLS", "SSL".

On the portable Thunderbird, the connection security has the options among NONE, STARTTLS, SSL/TLS, different from the regular one. I tried every possibility but none work.

Senario: I have 2 different instances of PTBs, PTB_1 for work and PTB_2 for private mail. I want to move a mail archive folder (not the "Archive" folder PTB creates) from PTB_1 to PTB_2. I already have a folder in PTB_1 called "ARKIV" (archive in Norwegian) and a subfolder called "Classes", which I want to move to PTB_2, but with the same file structure. Have tried copying the folders and classes + classes. msf files, but they are not recognised in PTB_2 when PTB_2 restarts. How do I make PTB_2 recognise the folders?

My Mom has been using TBird portable for some time with great success.

I recently built her a Linux based machine for her use at home and this has limited her use of TBird portable at home (as Portable Apps is Win32 -- and we prefer NOT to use WINE).

Are there any problems with installing TBird (same version number as on Portable Apps, obviously) on the Linux machine and then pointing the profile on that Linux-installed version at the profile folder on the Portable Apps device?