Thunderbird Portable

need to preface this with "yes, I'm a computer idiot."

Windows live mail for some reason is set up as default. when i go to tool,internet options, programs, set programs. I go to "non-microsoft" option and Thunderbird portable does not show up. Any clues???

Thanking you in advance

Hello,

i run Thunderbird Portable on my Netgear NAS. It takes very long to open the Programm, abour 3-5 minutes. Working in Thunderbird is also very slow, clicking on a mail takes about 30 seconds to do the selected option.

What can i do to make it faster?

Thunderbird 2 is a little faster. Starting takes also very long, but working in Thunderbird is very much faster.

Thanks, Klaus

1) Lost my messages on upgrading from Thunderbird 2. Folders all there but no messages.

2) Found my messages after restarting on another machine. Go Figure.

3) One annoyance remains. I have a pop mailbox, so must reset my smtp server as I go from machine to machine. It's OK to reset as I go to send my Email, fair enough, however what is annoying is when I get my Emails and the sender has asked for a return read receipt.

Hello,

I installed Thunderbird Portable 3.0.4.
Now I'd like to import my emails from within a web browser accessing my company mails via a VPN.
Do you think it's possible ?

Hi

I have always been using Thunderbird 3 on my Vista machine. Bought a new laptop that came with Windows 7 Starter version.

Realised that whenever it on the new machine (Windows 7 starter), TB cannot receive emails (error message : An error occurred with the POP3 mailserver. Mail server pop.winetatler.com responded: ) , but it is able to send emails. Thought that the program got corrupt, so plugged it out and tried it on my Vista machine. It worked perfectly in sending and receiving emails.

I am using the latest version of Thunderbird Portable (3.0.3)on a USB Flash Drive. This evening - I suddenly was unable to reply to a message. The cursor will not show in the body and the original message no longer shows. I also was unable to write a new message - again the cursor will not show in the body. I have not installed any new themes, plugins. I reinstalled Thunderbird (I did not uninstall the old (3.0.3) version first?) - I was able to write one test Email and then the problem started again. I do not know how to get the Portable version to run in safe mode.

For about a week now , when I send a message and then go back to look at that message through the search local folders .. When I reopen my sent message -- It has no body content to it .. The people I email are getting the content -- It is just not copying it all into the sent folder . Any suggestions ?
Wendell

Hello,

I installed Thunderbird portable 3.0.3 on my USB disc, copied mail files in the relevant folder, adjusted account and server settings as they were. Everything looks fine, I can receive e-mails without a problem, but I can not send any. The only difference with the conventional Thunderbird settings for outgoing server is unified option for SSL/TLS for connectio security in TBP while they are separate options in TB. Error message is 'connection time out with SMTP server'.

Thunderbird Portable is running well on Windows XP. I get back with POP protocol my gmail messages on my USB stick. Everything is ok when I want to read offline my emails on XP.

When I want to read them on Vista, I got this message after launching TBportable.exe :

When Thunderbird starts up it hangs on "Determining which messages to Index" and fails to load any mail.
The account settings are still displayed but no mail.

I am concerned about not do anything that will stop me recovering the data!

I can read other data from the flash drive OK.

Can anyone recommend a procedure so that I can at least recover my mail?