Thunderbird Portable

Scenario: I want to remove all emails from before 01012007 because my Inbox has become bloated, but I do not want to delete them permanently if I later have need for one or more of these old mails, I just want to keep them somewhere safe.

I know I can save a copy of my "Profile" folder, but if I later copy back the relevant email folder, it will delete my present email folder, so I need some form of "re-aapending" my old email folder to my current one.

I want to download to my USB drive only the messages that i'm interested; I have selected "Fetch headers only" and unselected "Automatically download messages" in the server configuration.
After downloading the headers of my new mails, I mark only the messages wich I want to download. But I don't find the button, or any menu to download the messages individually.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks

I've been playing around and may have found a way to 'use' TBP under linux. If you have TB on your Linux computer, use your TBP profile by saying:

cd .mozilla-thunderbird/
rm -rf fej2039jfladfj.default
ln -s /mnt/usb/ThunderbirdPortable/Data/profile fej2039jfladfj.default
thunderbird

The same would work for Firefox, I suppose.
there is only one catch. Don't ever EVER E V E R logout without manually saying

umount /mnt/usb

see the screenshot :
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9540/sshot1ja1.png

I've seen many topics about running these apps on WINE, but I'd like to know from experienced users: How does Thunderbird perform on it, and is it easy to get working?

After I upgraded from 1.5 to 2 the bottom of the screen on all of the Thunderbird windows is a grey block with red text that says

menu id="offlineMenuItem" insert after="trashMenuSeparator" label="&offlineMenu.label;" accesskey="&offlineMenu.accesskey;"

What did I do wrong?

Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5 works great for me. I downloaded and installed Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.9 on my local hard drive.

When I double click ThunderbirdPortable.exe nothing happens. If I watch the task manager, I see ThunderbirdPortable for about a second and then it quits. The splash screen never appears and there are no errors.

I tried renaming renaming Thunderbird.exe and added a .ini file pointing to it, but got the same result. I know the .ini file is working because if I give a bad name for the exe I get an error.

Hi,

I started using TB portable today - works great!

It popped a screen telling me a newer version of TB was available.

As it was not the latest PortableAp I did not do the upgrade.

What would have happened if I did the auto upgrade?

I guess this is a kind of bug - AutoUgrading should refer to the latest Portable Ap available and not the latest TB available.

Thanks

I've got a few portable apps already installed onto my USB flash drive, and I've just downloaded and installed the base of the PA Suite. How do I add ones that I have already installed (e.g TB) into the menu? I don't want to reinstall them because there are settings and data I don't want to lose - like emails in TB.

Does the version of Thunderbird included with the portableapps suite include Enigmail+GPG or is it the standard version?