Thunderbird Portable

I have Portable TB1.5 RC1 with Enigmail and GPG installed in a USB Pen drive
and two mail accounts working fine.

The problem(?) is that PTB keeps asking to update to a new version PTB v1.5.
I select "not now" because i am not sure if it is safe to update PTB that way.
Could someone enlighten me?

BTW, is it safe to update Enigmail from Tools-->Extensions - [update now]?;
There is a new ver.093.2 of enigmail ready to go.;)

TIA.

I know you recommend not to enable anti-virus because of adverse affect on flash drive life but this morning I had 1000+ messages waiting on just one account. Valid emails were less than 10. My current spam filter (Spamihilator) had a 99% efficiency. After 2 weeks of training PTB, it let through more than 12%. There were still about 125 messages (115 spam) to go through. I for one would rather replace my drive every 3-4 months than wade through all this spam. Great site and Great tools. Many thanks for your work. Donation to follow.

Hi all,

I've just started using Portable Thunderbird, and it's a great portable app. However, one of the main benefits of Thunderbird is the excellent Adaptive Junk Mail Filter. I notice that John Haller recommends turning the filter off and not marking mail as junk to prolong flash drive life, but mail without a junk filter these days is a bit painful.

Does anyone have any experience of how the junk filter affects drive life -- what problems does it cause and are there any workarounds?

I currently have junk filtering enabled and it's working great (doesn't seem to slow things down much even plugged into my USB 1.1 laptop), but will my drive really crash and burn if I keep using it? Are we talking days, weeks, months, years...???

After decompressing the download, I click on PortableThunderbird.exe and get message Thunderbird.exe was not found. Check your configuration.

Do I need to modify something or did I miss something?

I just downloaded Portable Thunderbird
first to synchronize my old PC thunderbird I run PortableThunderbird\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe
I copy all mail, installed all extensions, patched to RC2, etc etc ...
then I copy all files from AppData\Thunderbird\...\profile directory into
PortableThunderbird\profile
then I am trying to run PortableThunderbird.exe
everything I get is that PortableThunderbird.exe never runs PortableThunderbird\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe,
PortableThunderbird.exe starts using much CPU (probably as much as it can, like 99%)
interesting thing is when I start second PortableThunderbird.exe (the first one instance is still working and eating much cpu) the second one starts PortableThunderbird\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe (PortableThunderbird.exe sometimes crash but thunderbird is alywas working fine with that second run)

Hello

Is it possible to let PTB 1.5 RC1 automatically check for updates? Mine was configured like that and just wanted to install a security update. But my research on mozilla.com or portableapps.com didn't show that there was any security update available.

Is it safe to update automatically within PTB 1.5 RC1 or should I wait and download the whole new package from portableapps.com as available?

I read that we're recommended not to use the junk filter, however I receive so much junk that I decided to give it a go. I've never had problems with PTB freezing or crashing, but some other strange things have happened.

First, it's not catching 50% or so of the junk messages that go through for some reason. It's also marking messages as 'junk' that have never been marked before, and are on a whitelist.

Second, the message filters act weird, too. They filter messages that don't even remotely match the rules to that filter. For example, one message this morning was placed in a folder that only receives messages moved because they contain exactly "ing@." Upon looking at the folder, the mail was marked junk and moved to the junk folder. I have also had issues where after a message is moved by a filter, upon clicking on the folder it marks it as junk and moves it, even though it is clearly not junk.

Is there a way to synchronize the profiles, such as the porfile on my main PC as well as on my USB. I've noticed that when I go to get new mail on my USB, if I've already got it on my home PC then it won't show on my USB. I'd hate to have to copy the pc profile to the USB everytime I want to update my inbox. Plus if I receive something on PTB then my regular Thunderbird won't get it. These portable apps have been a lifesaver. Thanks for the effort and time.

If I receive an email I can reply to it. I can not however send a new email. I get an alert telling me to check my settings. I've quadruple checked and everything is the same as my desktop app.

Any ideas?

What's the best way to export mail and settings to either upgrade or to get ready for disaster recovery?

I'm only assuming that just saving a copy of portable thunderbird with settings on another medium, isn't the only way.