Thunderbird Portable

I wonder if some kind programmer could create a portable app to find and show the host computer outgoing server name? At internet cafes you can only see web mail pages, not their email program. And it can be embarrassing to ask other computer owners for it, especially when they aren't knowledgeable about computers and may be suspicious of your intentions.

In v2 - Portable Thunderbird asks on boot-up if I want to be online or off-line at start-up - usful for making sure copies have replicated properly etc.

Is there a way of setting this up in T/bird v3?

TIA all

Hello all,

When I run ThunderbirdPortable_3.0_English.paf.exe from my hard drive, I get the Open File - Security Warning dialog as if I'm trying to run the exe directly from a website. Previous versions (even the 2.0.0.23) did not do this. What might be causing this?

Cheers (and Happy New Year)
Ray

I down loaded and installed the new version of TB Portable over TB2 as instructed. Everything migrated perfectly: address book, accounts, emails, etc. I can send emails - no problem. However, TB3 will not check for new emails. Just to make sure I did it right I did a clean install on another USB stick, then imported my account settings using MoseBackup. Still no email checking. I re-installed TB2, and guess I'll stick with that until the bugs are worked out - even though it doesn't seem anyone else is having a problem. Any answers?

I copied ThunderbirdPortable.ini from other/source to the folder containing ThunderbirdPortable.exe. I added -safe-mode to the AdditionalParameters= line. I verified no thunderbird files were running in the background. Heck, I even shut down Firefox in case there were shared files. I start ThunderbirdPortable.exe and all my extensions are still running.

I deleted everything else from the .ini file so that it read only

[ThunderbirdPortable]
AdditionalParameters=-safe-mode

and again ran the program. Still all the extensions are running.

Suggestions?

Can anyone help? I could not get on with Tbird 3 and decided to go back to V2 ( I downloaded V2.0.0.23 portable) I understood that i should uninstall V3 and download and install V2 and that my emails would be kept in profile. I have now installed V2 but cannot find my emails. Can anyone help me to retreive them or have they gone down the tubes? If i cannot get these back is it possibe to find the email addresses of the senders in my old inbox? Sounds like a tall order to me but maybe someone outhere has an idea.
Hope you can help.
Best Regards
Griff

When I begin to type in an email address no email addresses are offered up to complete the address. The address book is there and I can select addresses from the book and choose write and they show up in the blank email.

In a perhaps related issue, the Add-on "Quickfile" pops up its dialog box without problem but doesn't find any folder names as you type them in.

Anyone seen similar problems? Running under WinXP.

Any advice on reverting from 3.0 to 2.0.0.23?

-----Paul-----

Hello:

I've been using portable apps from a long time ago without problems.
I have an a Gmail account with IMAP protocol which use in my house, office or portable version without a hiccup until... I tried Thunderbird v. 3 and this is what happened:

After testing this version and see that some addons and Lighting won't work I decided to put on hold more time for this version.

Recover all my configurations

I have acquired a new PC.
In the old one I have installed TB portable in a data disk Y:

In the new one I repeat the experience creating an equal data disk Y:

I have installed TB portable on Y: disk.

I copied all related files from Y:\PORTABLES\Navegadores . Internet . Correo\ThunderbirdPortable to the new pc with the same folder.

I have now all accounts recovered and news, but the addons seemed not to be active.

version in old and new pc : 1.2.1.2

Have I to copy anything else ?

Thanks
Excuse my language. I'm from Canary Islands

It used to work for TB2.

For TB3 I now just have a message "does not provide secure updates" in the Add-ons screen.

I tried adding boolean "extensions.checkUpdateSecurity=false" as outlined in mozillazine but it does not seem to work.

see
kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkUpdateSecurity