Thunderbird Portable

I have no idea what can cause this, but when I try compact folders when TB is sticked to an XP, it takes ages! Kind of 20 minutes for example.

Tha same job is done on an very slow laptop with w2k in seconds, on w98 similar even the usb port there is just 1.1 and all otherwise slow due to lack of ram.

Why does it take so long on the XP?

Hi,
trying to switch from good old Outlook to Thunderbird Portable worked with just a few frictions. The import of quite a large amount of mails was possible only with tricks. So yesterday - all seemed to be fine. I was happy to find all my mails in TBP, I had the feeling to have mastered all the character encoding settings. TBP even shows Chinese characters in the subject line (that Outlook doesn't do).

Until today:
All the Chinese characters in my mails are gone and substituted by question marks.
Per-ma-nent-ly, as it seems.

I have the option email sending the file selected, but when I try open a new thunderbird asking me for an account.

I have two accounts created.

What can i do ?

Any ideas?
There are two mail accounts, one webmail (yahoo.com) and one for my ISP. All messages have been deleted from the server.

Thanks

Merry X-mas to all.

Is there a way to shut down TBP neatly using a command line?
The purpose of this is to be able to shut it down from a batch file.
Thanks

How can i configure an crawler.com account in Thunderbird portable version.

Thanks
Excuse my language. I'm from Canary Islands

Hi!
I have a problem with my TB. I have installed it on my Pen Drive (Kingston Data Traveler II - 512MB). The problem is, that many of e-mails sent using TB have been never received by recipients - there is no rules. I am sure that everything is OK, all POP3, SMTP data are correct... I have imported settings from my Outlook Express.
- all e-mails sent from Outlook Express have been delivered without any problems - very fast
- e-mails sent from TB are shown as "sent", without any errors,
- recipients do not have my e-mail in SPAM folder,

To day I had one of those events where the PTB takes alsmost for ever to start and fills the ram with ????.
I was not using any external apps for attachments etc.
I had custom setting in the attachment handling for jpg, doc, and pdf , all pointing to portable software on the same stick.

Incidently, I had just also the folder on the windows explorer where the PTB is located open. I could from here see that the mimetypes was just incrementing in size, starting from its few kb to over 500mb. During that time nothing happend otherwise, the PC was quite 'frozen'.

Because I have to connect with my blackberry as well as do a few other things at work, i have to use both Outlook and Thunderbird portable (which is way faster). Whenever I send an email from outlook I see it as new received mail in my inbox (for the same account) instead of the sent box in Thunderbird. How do I fix this?

Is there anyway to set up Thunderbird where you can't read existing mail that is in the program with out the password being entered.

Basically, when I click on TBP, I had it set to where I had to enter my password every time I opened Thunderbird. Earlier I was wondering what happens if you click on cancel and you don't enter the password, could someone still read the existing email that has already been downloaded. I found out that it doesn't block you from see current email, it just won't download new email.

Thanks!