Thunderbird Portable

Hi everyone,

Has anyone had any experience with the cross-platform Portable Thunderbird or Firefox? The site http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/ has these apps for d/l, which are based on John's orginal apps.

I am looking to use both apps on PC and Mac, however would like to konw what the general consesus is.

Any feedback would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks

Hi Lads,

are there any plans to fix the disk thrashing that occurs with the junk mail filter? or a work around perhaps (other than disabling it, obviously!)?

With the amount of junk mail that most of us receive each day it doesn't make any sence to have an email client without it.
Kinda makes portable thunderbird unusable.

regards,

b

Disable Junk Mail Filter (IMPORTANT) - The adaptive Junk Mail filter in Thunderbird should be disabled for each account you set up. The Junk Mail filter thrashes whatever media it runs from (1,000 to 3,000 I/O writes just for marking a me

My PTB 1.5 justed updated itself to 1.5.0.2.

Worked great.

Thanks John!

Hi John and all,

Wonderfull work on these apps - they are now part of my life ( major geek moment)

PTB was working fine for me since i first got it ( strait after release) - then about a month ago it prompted me for passwords again for my accounts.. and does so now every time i start it.

read up on main thunderbird site and it says to go in and delete all curent passwords and try again - didnt help.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again

Tonka128

i am using portable TB from a USB hdd. been using this for few months now. very contented.

today morning, while shutting down my PC, i removed the USB hdd, & windows gives warning of failing to write something on the hdd. (actually TB was closed just before that)

now it does not start. i just tried copying all contents of profile folder into another portable TB installation on c drive, when i noticed that the file prefs.js cannot be copied. so i replace this file from a old backup, & it works, but the recent config changes are lost.

plus now there is a new problem. any customisations that i wish to make to my toolbar are getting lost, when i restart TB.

My prefs.js file has the following setting for enigmail:

user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentPath", "S:\\software\\Portable Thunderbird 1.5rc1 with gpg and enigmail\\PortableThunderbird\\gpg\\gpg.exe");

If I change my drive letter for the USB device, the NSI code doesn't update this field. I am unable to send encrypted email or do key management.

I've also tried all manner of "..\\gpg\\gpg.exe", etc, without success.

Hi.
Huge congrats on portable thunderbird with PGP/Enigmail built in, truely brilliant.
But I'm having problems. I've copied my profile and copied the PGP databases and all is fine with regards to most things, except I have a public/private key pair which is used for multiple e-mail addresses, if I use it on my uni address then it works fine, but if I try to send an e-mail from my private address it says that the private key is not available and so I can't sign any e-mails.

This works fine on my standard Thunderbird, and sometimes works on the portable thunderbird. Any ideas?

I did notice that the location of gpg.exe is left blank in the enigmail preferences box, is this normal?

Anybody know of an addon or setting within PTB to prompt for a password before starting the program?

I know there a password protecton for profiles and the like but I fear leaving the flash drive around or loosing it completely and somebody finding it and without any problem logging in and send emails from my account.

So it might be nice to have an add on that when either the autorun or you double click on the icon it asks for a password before proceeding.

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

Mark Wright

Hi,

First thank you, yours apps changed mylife, I just have a probleme with thunderbird,
when I delete mail in the application, it's not realy done in the "inbox" file, it's the same for "sent", I realized that because, I deleted a lot of mail and the "inbox" files of each account was still as big as before, full of rubish, especialy the attached files comming from spams, with virus (not active, but anyway).

I have to remove them manually with a text editor, wath could be the probleme?

Thank you again for your contribution.

PS : -when the "Portable Apps" will be able to run linux.

I'm using PT 1.5 with the GNU-OpenPGP-EnigMail add-in.

I notice that during Compact Folders on the account-level node, the progress bar doesn't appear as each folder in the account is compacted. Compact seems to be working, since I see the write light on my flash drive.

Is this a bug? If so, has it been reported?