Thunderbird Portable

I am at a loss as to what to do here. I have found some threads on this issue but am still stuck. The email and settings etc are all stored in the default locations. The profile settings say this:

[ThunderbirdPortableSettings]
LastProfileDirectory=G:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile
AgreedToLicense=YES

I am shutting down Thunderbird Portable and then trying to safely remove the USB device. Even though I wait until the light has stopped blinking, frequently it won't let me safely remove it!

Also, when I insert back my USB device again, Thunderbird Portable have corrupted and all my mail are gone!

I suspect that Thunderbird Portable and/or another app is not closing completely so Windows XP is not capable of safely finish all its operations on the drive.

Can anybody help me with this?

After carefully reading
https://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#recommended

I still haven't been able to get TBP working with my yahoo account. I tried it with my inbox.com email address and it worked fine.

I noticed some people in a posting said it doesn't need the extension yahoo-1-1-16.xpi. Was this for standard yahoo webmail or the PLUS! account. With/without xpi i don't seem to be able to get it to work.

I'm having trouble setting up my Roadrunner account through Thunderbird on my thumb drive. I can receive mail fine. When I try to send mail I get an error message:
Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed. Please verify that your e-mail address is correct in your mail preferences and try again.

I've double checked the smtp server. The status box shows connected to the smtp account when the error shows up. Anybody have an idea to fix this most frustrating problem?

Is there a setting in TBird portable that will automatically mark a message once I have sent a reply to it?

thanks-

Patrick

does this mess up tbird portable? is this the reason my data is disappearing when I move the drive from one computer to another?

I want to use my local tb profile & mails in tb portable, therefore I copied prefs.js, abook.mab and the ImapMail/Mail foders to the tb portable profile folder (before starting it the 1st time). But when I start tb from my removeable drive it will still use the local profile (instead of the one on the usb drive). I noticed that in prefs.js absoulte paths are used (e.g. for .server.serverN.directory) and they still point to the local mail folders. So here's my question: How can I set them correctly? If I just use "\\ImapMail\\...." it will create a mail folder in the documents & settings dir.

I did an inplace upgrade from TBP 1.5.0.9 to 1.5.0.10, and Thunderbird can no longer see my mail folders and my account settings. I opened the Data\profile folder, and I see them in the Mail subfolder, so the data is actually there.

What can I do to recover?

I delete the email message but the thunderbird folder now is 266MB!!
I think thunderbird non delete correctly message...

how to resolve ?

Hi

I'm running 3-4 portable TBs on my USB-Sick, some BETAs etc.
I'd like to have just ONE Adressbook I could access from any of these TBs
is this possible?

Thanks

Samuel