Thunderbird Portable

I have a huge number of Outlook Express emails on a computer. I want to use Thunderbird portable to "back these up" and then run Thunderbird portable on a flash drive to go between two locations.

so, I guess I want to do two things:

1. Get Thunderbird portable set up. No problem here.

2. Get all the old email from Outlook Express. I am not in this location but I assume I go to tools and import.

Does that sound right?

Thanks

sb

How can I use the -profile option to point to a user profile. In "normal" thunderbird I just write -profile [file path/name].
Can I do this with the portable thunderbird launcher? If so, how? Creating a shortcut includes the drive path, which would ruin the portability, as a different machine might mount the drive on another letter.

Hello,

not sure if this the right place for my question? If not, please point me in the right direction.

I've been using TB Portable as my default client for a few years now. Provided that TB Portable was up and running, Windows recognized it as the default client for "mailto" links and sending documents out of applications such as MS Office.

I want to download Thunderbird Portable to a flash drive. Is there any other software I heed to do prior to this?

Thank you

sb

When I use Thunderbird Portable to read or send email from my college networked computer on campus, I get Server timed out. Is this a problem I can fix local, or is it the college server? How do I correct the problem?

Rob

Before I knew it, I got a popup from Thunderbird saying it had downloaded the new update and was going to install it either now, or "later". So I had no choice to cancel it... I clicked later and disabled the auto update in the options menu, but to no avail. At the next boot the updater worked and worked and... it launched just fine?

I shut it down, and started it again, and it worked just fine, again?

I tried my own local copy Thunderbird...and it worked fine... so that didn't get broken either...

I have problems starting 2 instances of Thunderbird (PortableApps and Local) at the same time. I have to start the Portable version first and then the Local one. The other way around doesn't function. Then I get an error message: "There is already one instance of Thunderbird started. Please shut down all of the other TB-instances first before you start Thunderbird, Portable Edition." (translated from German by me)

How does one get Thunderbird Portable to work behind a firewall and proxy? I have no problems using it a home but at work it will not. I have set the proxy options the same as I use for Firefox but it still will not connect.

doug at kaynor dot net

Please how can I get rid of the padlock on my account? I need to know the file to delete to get rid of this.

I have a virus which is likely causing these problems but I can only read the emails once before the account is padlocked and then I can read none.

I am sorry if there an answer in the FAQs I did not find one.

Thanks
Quirkly

I just downloaded the Enigmail extension from ThunderbirdPortable´s support page and I get the wrong hash.

I get 31a1265e47e8737a1f5a1b8247634c88 but the official one is 0b81aa26b6609261b525e03f5dd0e3a5.

Do I have the wrong file of did John not update the Md5 hash?