Thunderbird Portable

I have been using Thunderbird portable for probably close to 10 years now on a portable drive. I was having no problems until the recent upgrade to 31.3.0 when all of a sudden it starts asking me if I want a new email address and all my old email accounts and files have vanished. What is going on?

Hi,

Is it possible to get gmail through Thunderbird Portable within the office..
When I tried adding gmail it does not connect.

Could it be that there is some kind of filter or port block in place?

Thanks!

Hi,

unfortunately there are some comments in support forum about Thunderbird which is NOT belongs to portable versions. (i.e. *.xpi cannot install to portable).

Unfortunately the original and portable versions are mixed.

I suggest you to correct them - or improve portable versions to original version level.

Hi all, loved the idea of a portable mail client, but checking the install and start in a sandbox that doesn't really seem to be the case, see here all the folders it created and wrote to:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EYZB5RlwMpw/VCCmmkGQaRI/AAAAAAAAAc0/K...

Am I missing something?

The other day, after starting ThunderbirdPortable, I found that all of my e-mail was missing. I managed to get the e-mail back by creating a new profile and copying all of the contents of E:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile to a new folder, then copying the contents of the new folder back to E:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile. However, my Lightning calendar tab no longer lists any of the events I'd recorded; my Task tab no longer shows any of my tasks. I tried re-installing the Lightning extension, but that failed to correct the problem.

Recently, my well-used and up-to-date (31.0) Thunderbird has been experiencing long hang-ups during many normal operations. Deleting messages, moving messages between folders, sending messages, and once, retrieving a message. It hangs for 30 seconds to several minutes, displaying the "busy" cursor. Windows reports "Not responding." Task Manager can't kill it until it decides to come back. Actually, it can kill the ThunderbirdPortable.exe process, but not the thunderbird.exe process.

hello,

i just did a fresh install of thunderbird portable and copied my old user.js file to the data\profile folder, but the settings are not present in the prefs.js.

the firefox user.js that i have created is working like charm in its folder, so i don't know what is wrong on tb's side?

any hints highly appreciated

Hi,

A lot of links in the helpfile are broken. For example: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/keyboard but a lot others too.

Is somebody aware of the newer URL's because I assume the pages are still existing but on another place?

thx, Wilfried

Hi,

I just installed the portable version and wanted to ad an additional language for the spell checker. However it won't work the way it is described.

However I found a very simple way, so I want to share it:

1. Download the vocabulary language with your browser. You will now have a file with exention *.xpi

2. Extract the xpi file met 7-zip

3. copy the *.dic and the *.aff file to the folder: App\Thunderbird\dictionaries\

4. start Thunderbird and you can choose between the languages when you compose a message. Nothing else to do.

Hi,

I've just added another aol account, newly created, to Tbird. The account works when used in a browser, ie FfxPortable. But when I send emails from Tbird, I always get an error message.

I've spoken to AOL and they just said to remove and recreate the account in Tbird, which I did, but it still won't send anything.
I also got error whilst Tbird tried saving Draft.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Scott

EDIT:
Just found out I can copy the error text, so here it is: