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Different SMTP servers at home and work

Submitted by fhanselmann on July 28, 2006 - 2:53pm

I have multiple personal email accounts across multiple personal domains.

I am trying to find out if it is possible to setup PTB to use the individual SMTP servers for each personal domain when I am using it on my home PC but only use one SMTP server while at work. Port 25 is blocked at work, but I can configure PTB to use work SMTP server to send mail. I can't and don't want to use the work SMTP server while at home.

Put another way, is it possible to run two instances (not at the same time) of PTB (one for home with it's servers setup, one for work with it's server setup) and use the same data store? Or is there another way I haven't thought of to accomplish this?

Slow Thunderbird, even on my local hard drive

Submitted by Chris Rust on July 27, 2006 - 6:25pm

I've just started using Portable Thunderbird and it has really solved a lot of problems for me working between two computers on two sites. However it is slow to open messages and painfully slow to delete them, hanging up the whole program until it's finished the task.
I'm using a Lacie USB2 hard drive and wondered if there was a cacheing delay of some kind (there seems to be some energetic HD or fan action on my office PC every time I do a delete) but I've now tried running PB in a briefcase folder on my laptop's own hard drive and that seems just as slow.

Any ideas?

PTB have some problems with some extensions for TB

Submitted by goranpasic on July 26, 2006 - 6:07pm

I try to use some extensions (made for TB - desktop version) , and they work just fine! But I have problem with this ext. (mozilla_calendar-0.2.0.20060116-fx+tb-windows.xpi)...
PTB cant start (you must run it twice), in the Task manager CPU usage 100%
Later I uninstal this ext. but the damage is done. Any time I try to run this app. the problem remains.
I know that some of you will say , why dont use Portable Sunbird instead! But I try to use it bullit-in with PTB... and failed!
It would be nice to have some list of safe extension for PTB

PTB slow in Kingston drive

Submitted by sergiom99 on July 24, 2006 - 7:27pm

Hi Guys,
i am setting up portable Thunderbird in my Kingston Datatraveler 128Mb, but it's quite slow.
I want to make sure my USB ports are 2.0

I am running WIN XP PRO SP2, all updated drivers. My motherboard is a Soyo 7VCA2. desktop PIII 1ghz.
At device manager i see the following under USB:
--sorry my OS is in spanish!--
http://img130.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=67180_device_man_531lo.jpg

I see no "enhanced USB" anywhere!

PTB leaves a stub behind on host PC?

Submitted by peanut butter on July 23, 2006 - 2:28pm

I was cleaning out the registry on one of my computers, and noticed to my surprise that PTB showed up in it. It's under the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\userid@isp.com
(the email address above isn't real, of course)

Where the string named Application has the value:
"G:\Apps\PortableThunderbird\App\thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -profile "G:\Apps\PortableThunderbird\Data\profile" -mail

Luckily I haven't used PTB on any public computers yet, but the fact that my email address is left behind on a host PC worries me. Is there any way to fix this problem?

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