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use system proxy settings in portable thunderbird

Submitted by etellier on February 16, 2011 - 7:05pm

Good day, im using portableapps at work, we are on a secure lan with an exchange server, i have no way to find our proxy settings and info, however, firefox is good enough and have a "use system proxy settings" that works well, however, thunderbird lacks that nice functionnality, is there an update for thunderbird to add this functionnality in it, else, i wont be able to use at all. i intend to use it to check my home mail, which are from a normal pop server.

Eric

thx for your time.

Incompatibility when running on Win7 vs WinXP?

Submitted by dmachmeier on February 10, 2011 - 2:21pm

On a Win7 Box
- USB thumb drive
- download and install Portable Apps Platform (1.6.1)
- downloaded and installed newest version of Thunderbird Portable (3.1.7. rev2)
- Configured my email accounts(imap) using the Win7 machine and accessed my mail.
- All portable apps work fine including TB portable.

On a Win XP
- Take same USB drive to XP SP2 box
- Startup Portable Apps Menu - works fine.
- Try starting TB portable. Will not open email and email accounts.
- Other portable apps work on XP.

Take USB drive back to Win7 machine
- Startup Portable Apps Menu - works fine.

mouse timing

Submitted by patrick013 on February 3, 2011 - 8:10pm

Hi,

Is there any way to lengthen the mouse double-click timing
setting inside TBird. The computer is set for 1000ms but
TBird is set much smaller and it is a little hard to open
messages to a new tab.

thx.

Patrick013

Watched Newsgroup threads

Submitted by patrick013 on February 3, 2011 - 8:06pm

Hi,

Is there any way besides stars to watch a newsgroup thread, perhaps placing
a sync'd copy in the newsgroup local folders area till expired and/or saved there as well. Windows Live Mail does this and it sure would be handy if I could
find where TBird has that feature for usenet.

thx.

Patrick013

Lightning linking to google

Submitted by thewrightgeeks on February 2, 2011 - 3:58pm

If i install thunderbird and its plugin lightning does this allow the facility to connect to google calendar. Reading on the web an additional plugin is required.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/provider-for-google-c...

My goal is that i can sync with my phone by adding into Lightning and using google as a transport.

Thanks

Black background with black text scrolling issue

Submitted by darkstar on February 2, 2011 - 1:32pm

Hello - I have a strange and annoying problem going on with Thunderbird Portable 3.1.7 running under Wine 1.2/Linux (openSuSE 11.3 x64). Many of my emails are being shown with a black background and black text making them unreadable. I have tried setting all the various color options for background and text but to no avail.

Where have all my folders and emails gone on upgrade from 2 to 3

Submitted by mike fisher on February 1, 2011 - 3:15pm

I am running thunderbird 2 on a 160gb usb hard drive.
I have about 100 folders in the Inbox plus 10 in my local folders each with sub folders.
I have 3.9GB of emails.

when it upgrades to 3 all I have is:-
Inbox(2608)
Inbox(11)
Drafts ....empty
Sent .....empty
Junk .....empty
Trash ... with 3 empty search folders
Outbox ...empty
Deleted ...empty
Folders ...empty should contain sub folders
Outlook Express Mail ...empty
Saved(653)
ZZZ folders ..empty should be about 30 sub folders

Where are all my folders and X times thousands emails?
How do I get them back

Privacy, password protection, unsafe software

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Submitted by mart7t on January 24, 2011 - 3:22pm

I use Thunderbird portable on my usb flash drive at uni and everywhere else. Privacy of email is absolutely important to protect against identity theft. Portable Thunderbird is a beautiful portable app with some really great features except for the one I need the most, and that is a password protection feature. Before accessing any emails, there needs to be a requirement to enter the correct password.

Installing Lightning to integrate Sunbird as a TB portable Add-on

Submitted by ka.aly on January 16, 2011 - 4:05pm

Hi

Thunderbird Portable is 3.0.6. I downloaded Lightning 1.0 from portableapps.com. When I tried installing as an add-on from TB's Tools menu, I get a an installation fail message advising that it is not compatible.

Can anyone advise what is the compatible Lightning version, and where to download. Actually.. Generically.. What is the URL to check compatibility of any protable app with any portale app add-on?

Many thanks,
ka

lost all my info

Submitted by judgemack on January 12, 2011 - 10:03pm

I started thunderbird this morning and none of my accounts or email showed up. I just upgrade to 3 and set up my email accounts again. How can I get the emails from thunderbird 2 into thunderbird 3? everything seems to work fine in 3 as far as sending and receiving goes, but all my emails from last year and all are not showing up. They are still in the directory J:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\Mail. I would love to move all the messages from there into the new inboxes, etc. Can anyone help?

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