Thunderbird Portable

Hi.
Huge congrats on portable thunderbird with PGP/Enigmail built in, truely brilliant.
But I'm having problems. I've copied my profile and copied the PGP databases and all is fine with regards to most things, except I have a public/private key pair which is used for multiple e-mail addresses, if I use it on my uni address then it works fine, but if I try to send an e-mail from my private address it says that the private key is not available and so I can't sign any e-mails.

This works fine on my standard Thunderbird, and sometimes works on the portable thunderbird. Any ideas?

I did notice that the location of gpg.exe is left blank in the enigmail preferences box, is this normal?

Anybody know of an addon or setting within PTB to prompt for a password before starting the program?

I know there a password protecton for profiles and the like but I fear leaving the flash drive around or loosing it completely and somebody finding it and without any problem logging in and send emails from my account.

So it might be nice to have an add on that when either the autorun or you double click on the icon it asks for a password before proceeding.

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

Mark Wright

Hi,

First thank you, yours apps changed mylife, I just have a probleme with thunderbird,
when I delete mail in the application, it's not realy done in the "inbox" file, it's the same for "sent", I realized that because, I deleted a lot of mail and the "inbox" files of each account was still as big as before, full of rubish, especialy the attached files comming from spams, with virus (not active, but anyway).

I have to remove them manually with a text editor, wath could be the probleme?

Thank you again for your contribution.

PS : -when the "Portable Apps" will be able to run linux.

I'm using PT 1.5 with the GNU-OpenPGP-EnigMail add-in.

I notice that during Compact Folders on the account-level node, the progress bar doesn't appear as each folder in the account is compacted. Compact seems to be working, since I see the write light on my flash drive.

Is this a bug? If so, has it been reported?

I noticed that v1.5 seemed to take a very long time to load.
By "Load" I mean the time from clicking on the startup icon to where my Inbox messages are shown. Both versions are on the same USB stick.
v1.0.7 took 16 seconds
v1.5 (20051025) took 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

Both versions had about the same number of messages in the various folders.
Both have compacted folders.

Any hints?

Plus, I see in v1.5 even though I have set check for new mail every 20 minutes, nothing new is ever in my Inbox until I manually click on Get All Messages.

Although your "extension-friendly" launcher is supposed to alter the paths to any extensions to be relative (and seems to work fine), some configuration parameters (for example, "mail.root" as seen with the about.com extension) have the drive letter specified. Obviously, the assigned drive letter may change from computer to computer or depending on how many USB flash drives are connected. At least one extension ("Thunderbird Reset Quote Header" from www.supportware.net/mozilla/) requires you to browse for the text file it will use and then hard codes the drive letter into the configuration (which can be edited with about.com). Consequently, it isn't a relative path, and it doesn't work if the drive letter changes. Under the U3 modifications, is there a work-around or solution to redirect specified drive letters to currently assigned drive letters, or can % be used somehow?

Hello, how can i auto-set a higher-than-normal or high priority for thunderbird.exe on WinXP SP2?
I've noticed that you can't simply set the command on the shortcut 'cause it triggers Portable Thunderbird Launcher and not Thunderbird.exe.
Thanks

having used PT now on a couple of different machines (to successfully recieve email), one on a network, and one on a similar home wireless set up to the one i have at home. I find i can only send and receive on my own machine. Whenever i try to send i get a very longwinded message about servers, if anyone has any suggestions i would be most greatful
Cheers

How do I get TB to trigger for an update? Firefox did this right away, and I haven't had any issues with it, but TB won't update. I don't want to try to install the regular install program to the portable folder.

I'm using PT 1.5 on Windows and it's just started hanging on a Get Mail command.

It will usually download the first piece, then hang on the second one. It just started this behaviour recently, and I can't figure it out. The next eMail message isn't unusually large or an html message necessarily.

The only thing I can think of that I'm doing strangely is using PT on a Mac and on Windows accessing the same profile. The Mac version (also 1.5) seems to occasionally hang on program start.

Any thoughts? Thanks.