Thunderbird Portable

I'm moving from Outlook to portable open source software for my organizational needs. I've gotten Thunderbird up and running with GnuPG support. I've cleaned up my address book, after importing it from an Outlook pst file. (I'll be adding head shots this week, copying them from my work computer.) My email provider is gmail.

Hi,

When I click on different folders in the space of a few seconds I get this message...

"Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server. If so, use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cached connections."

I'm not trying to connect with the server - just seeing what's in different folders. It seems to be connecting unnecessarily?

I've changed the number referred in the message box to one for each account. I don't get why clicking to different folders makes the connection anyway?

Where does Portable Thunderbird save its email files when they get downloaded from gmail? And how can those locations be changed?

I was hoping that it would save the emails to the usb drive (or wherever the program is installed) but it doesn't appear to work that way. When I moved my thumb drive from one computer to another, I downloaded all the emails that are on the server again.

My major fear is that if I use Portable Thunderbird on a public computer, I'll be leaving behind a large quantity of email messages that really should not be left behind.

Yesterday I installed Mailtweak http://mailtweak.mozdev.org/index.html on my portable Thunderbird 3.0.4.
I need to use the Defer ( http://mailtweak.mozdev.org/mailtweak-defer.html ) option of this Addon, since sl8tr and other Addons don't work for TB3.

Everything works fine, except for this function. It saves the timed messages in a folder "Deferred" in the outbox, but they never send.
This might be a problem only with the portable version, because I have no problems with the local version on my other pc.

Thunderbird v3.04

How do I remove Zebra stripping from Thunderbird portable? That's the alternating line color in the inbox.

Thanks

I have a quick basic question. When I download install TBP, do I download it directly to my USB that I want to use or should I first download and install it to my harddrive, then install it onto my USB?

I need to select a date range of messages (several hundred) from main inbox to an archived inbox. How can I move so many msgs at one time from folder to folder?

I tried out Portable Thunderbird (via the full suite) installed to a Transcend TS16GSDHC6 16 GB SDHC Flash card. After installing the suite, I copied my existing mail stores to it, following the published instructions; copying the entire profile resulted in Thunderbird failing to start, so I backpedaled and copied the recommended minimum files. That worked, though I was missing a few UI customizations and some extensions.

A strange thing indeed: At one point the OK button at the bottom of the "Account Settings" dialog stopped working properly. I can still close the dialog by clicking Cancel, but OK doesn't work and hence no setting can be saved. Internet search turns up no solutions for me.

I´m trying to use signature at my portable e-mail and I don´t know how to do it. Someone can help me? Thank you!!!