Thunderbird Portable

When I use Thunderbird Portable to read or send email from my college networked computer on campus, I get Server timed out. Is this a problem I can fix local, or is it the college server? How do I correct the problem?

Rob

Before I knew it, I got a popup from Thunderbird saying it had downloaded the new update and was going to install it either now, or "later". So I had no choice to cancel it... I clicked later and disabled the auto update in the options menu, but to no avail. At the next boot the updater worked and worked and... it launched just fine?

I shut it down, and started it again, and it worked just fine, again?

I tried my own local copy Thunderbird...and it worked fine... so that didn't get broken either...

I have problems starting 2 instances of Thunderbird (PortableApps and Local) at the same time. I have to start the Portable version first and then the Local one. The other way around doesn't function. Then I get an error message: "There is already one instance of Thunderbird started. Please shut down all of the other TB-instances first before you start Thunderbird, Portable Edition." (translated from German by me)

How does one get Thunderbird Portable to work behind a firewall and proxy? I have no problems using it a home but at work it will not. I have set the proxy options the same as I use for Firefox but it still will not connect.

doug at kaynor dot net

Please how can I get rid of the padlock on my account? I need to know the file to delete to get rid of this.

I have a virus which is likely causing these problems but I can only read the emails once before the account is padlocked and then I can read none.

I am sorry if there an answer in the FAQs I did not find one.

Thanks
Quirkly

I just downloaded the Enigmail extension from ThunderbirdPortable´s support page and I get the wrong hash.

I get 31a1265e47e8737a1f5a1b8247634c88 but the official one is 0b81aa26b6609261b525e03f5dd0e3a5.

Do I have the wrong file of did John not update the Md5 hash?

I configured mailto links to go to Thunderbird Portable. This works fine if Thunderbird is closed. However if Thunderbird is already open, then I get an error message when clicking on an email link: Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or restart your system.

My registry settings for the mailto command --
Key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command to:
Value: "r:\ThunderbirdPortable\ThunderbirdPortable.exe" "%1"

Hello,
I think I found an omission in the portable thunderbird version. When I do a "Detach" of a mail attachment, the attachment is saved correctly, but (even when I save it in a subdirectory of the portable thunderbird) the path in the mail is stored as an absolute path (e.g. U:\ThunderbirdPortable\Attachments\Filename.doc
When I want to read the mail/attachment on another computer, the attachment is not found by the mailer.
Gert van Antwerpen

Dear All,
I want to start a brand new TB on a new device but I would like to populate Personal Address Book with the contents of a correctly formatted tab-delimited text file. Using Import, whatever I try to do, all I can manage is a new named Address Book additional to Personal Address Book, while PAB remains empty, as does Collected Addresses. Any ideas? Thank you.
Fergus

Is this still an unresolvable issue with the NS installer?

https://portableapps.com/node/4530

I just installed the portable GPG and Enigmail and the path to my gpg.exe is being changed when I exit TB. The path for my TB includes a directory starting with a lowercase n, NSIS seems to turn this into some control character when it saves back to the "extensions.enigmail.agentPath" line in pref.js. Works fine with an uppercase N though.