Thunderbird Portable

First, a question: how much of a performance decrease am I going to see as old emails build up? At what point does that happen (i.e. when I have X megs of emails stored in my TB folders)? Second, is there an easy/safe way to archive my old emails?

I have 2 "installations" of Thunderbird Portable on two different drives - one for private & work and another for å club I'm running, all in all 17 different accounts. I would like to keep them separate, i.e. not having all of them in one instance of PTB, but when I have one instance open and try to start another, I get the message:
"Another instance of Thunderbird is already running. Please clos other instances of Thunderbird before launching Thunderbird Portable."
Is there any way to circumvent this?

Thankful for suggestions.

kermik

I could use some help setting up my Thunderbird mail system?

I'm new to this open source stuff, so please forgive me if I seem inept (Actually, I am)

What I'm trying to do is set Thunderbird up so that regardless of what system I happen to be using, I can simply plug in my Cruzer USB micro with Thunderbird and receive my email from several different email accounts.

When setting up my account I am not prompted to enter a password. I need to have a password entered so that I can connect to my sbcglobal.net account.

What am I missing?

Lane

With TBird portable and FFox portable, how long can one expect a usb thumb drive to last with a presumed imit or 100,000 write cycles?

Hello Every one,
A lot of us are confused how to make the Thunderbird work with the Bloody yahoo e-mail free accounts, well i know the way and i just downloaded all my bloody e-mails, and for all who helped me on this beautiful forum and special thanks to all the guys who made all this portable programs, because they disurve our support and our thanks, So lets Rock :

First i will put those e-mails settings :

1)Gmail.
2)Yahoo.

hai
sorry my language(english) is bad
i am from indonesia
i use thunderbird , 2 month
and i have (2) multiple account of gmail
but this day suddenly i cannot step into my default account ,
just second account succeed to enter
this error is :

"Sending password did not succeed. Mail Server pop.gmail.com responded: Username and password not accepted."

but if i use browser to open account in gmail,
success and there no problem at all
WHY with my thunderbird, please help.

thanks
-=irham=-

Couldn't find an answer for this.

All my email accounts work in Thunderbird portable (when it finally launches), except for my hotmail account. I'm using the webmail extension, with the hotmail and gmail extensions. Gmail and my pop work fine, but when trying to check my hotmail, I get the following error:

"Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from myemailaddress@hotmail.com"

Anyone have any ideas how I can get this to work?

Thanks!

When I push "Get Mail" button it do nothing . I have to go click in the accounts one per one.

And I check " Check for new messages on start up " and " check messages every X minutes " and it do nothing.

(Excuse for my bad English)

Hi,

I've installed Thunderbird Portable on a 128 USB key. As it's a pretty short memory, I detach or delete all the attached files of my mails that I want to keep.
On the Thunderbird window, it appears that the size of the message is lower. But when I look at the folders on the installation directory of the program, the size of the folders remains the same. Means that, after some days, even if I detach all the attached files I get, I won't be able to use the program anymore cause I'll reach the max. capacity of my key. What can I do ?