Thunderbird Portable V3.0.1    Suggested by Eu Gene Lim - Updated by guinness on 28 Jan 2010 32MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (3158) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (24) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Eldad: Pros: Relaiable, has all you need almost like MS. outlook.
Cons: Heavy, works slow, doesn't fully support Hebrew, latest version have some XML problems. [2006-06-14 02:35]

 surath: The interface and themes is good. Not show size of attachments (must install extention for this plan option), no options for Export Accounts, Address Book, Email (maybe, the MozBackup can help). After deleted some email and used option Compact Folders the folders size is too large. [2007-03-15 00:23]

 Webfork: The link provided also gives you the option of downloading thunderbird with Enigmail (which provides secure email [PGP/GPG] capability). Though its not as complete as the Mobility E-mail which claims to connect with Webmail services.

You can also download lightning (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/) for an integrated iCal-compatible calendar. (Also portable as far as I know.) [2007-04-28 14:15]

 Rosane: The program itself is great...
However, I have lost all data twice within the short period of 1 1/2 month.. Ans since I am not a programmmer, the explanations to try to recover it are far too advanced for me.
And I cannot have an e-mail client that keeps deleting all my folders and messages!! [2007-05-28 12:10]

 Enigmail(er): I am unhappy about the newest releases of Thunderbird Portable. In previous versions a GPG version with enigmail was available. Now the update makes droubles without an end. :-(

I hope in the feature the enigmail will be again included! [2007-07-23 09:15]

 Jeremy: enigmail can be installed like any extension. and gpg is on the thunderbird portable homepage as an add-on.

mobility email is a dead project and should be removed. [2007-08-03 18:33]

 User: As to the enigmail plugin - i can't get it to work on my thunderbird portable 2.x. I downloaded the plugin and it's there but not configurable. It screems that the path should be chosen and that main settings are missing... any 1 can help me with this ? (I use the portable 1.0x version and it was already with enigmail and it works fine..but hey, I wan't the better one..so please help... :)

Thanks in advance [2007-09-06 05:16]

 Myself: After reading about official firefox I finally made my firefox portable and it is much better than the portableapps version which actually destroyed itself on my usb. But anyway, 1) what is the situation of Thunderbird's unicode support, has it got better considering the entry is a bit old. 2) is there anything like official thunderbird just like official firefox? it would really help you know. [2007-12-18 00:10]

 Luan: I Want a tray minimizer in Mozilla, Please please please!
Thanks [2008-03-03 06:00]

 Jens: http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/ [2008-03-29 11:09]

 Mal Content: What's the point of putting it on a USB drive when it keeps all its settings on the PC's hard drive so that when you plug it into a different PC you have no mail without some complex reconfiguring!!!! Giving up and looking for something else:( [2008-06-22 19:14]

 Technomancer: I downloaded and tried 'Thunderbird' a couple of years ago, (i'm not sure if there was a portable version then), but i couldn't make it work so i scrapped it.

I'm now using 'Thunderbird Portable v2.0.0.18' both on my PC and on my external hard drive. I have 8 'accounts' set up on it and find it easier to set up and use than 'Micro$oft Outlook or Outlook Express'.

I've got a little program called 'Abakt' set up and use that to do regular backups of 'Thunderbird' but so far i haven't had any problems with data loss, (touchwood).

With all these sort of programs it's VERY important to set up a 'Disaster Recovery Plan', (for those of you who aren't computer literate, it's simply a procedure of what you can do to limit the loss of data, software etc if there is a disaster). [2008-11-23 10:10]

 Richard: Thunderbird Portable V2.0.0.18 nows hangs whenever I try to download a message with an attachment (in some IMAP account). The OS is windows Vista SP1. [2008-11-25 02:09]

 Richard: About the hang with attachments: this has been discussed on the portableapps.com TB forum. It turns out that deleting mimeTypes.rdf in the TB profile eliminates the hang. [2008-11-25 03:44]

 Anders Martinson: Does anybody have had problems sending messages with Thunderbird portable?

Getting message: connection to SMTP server failed. Server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections.

All settings are correct in my Thunderbird and according to e-mail suppliers instructions.

SMTP-server is available. Could it be a firewall problem? [2008-12-05 00:51]

 Static: Would one of these versions be better than the other? I tried the x-thunderbird and it seems to take loads of memory. Is it the same with the portable apps version? [2009-01-29 16:31]

 Brett: I'm also having problems sending [see comments by Anders Martinson]. What's the answer? Any ideas? [2009-03-01 15:12]

 krsx: Hi Can i make thunderbird portable with .xml file like filezilla? [2009-03-26 00:50]

 Juan: Lost it All. Address books, emails, account Setups. ALL gone and I do not have way to recover all that data. Two weeks worth of work GONE. I was trying to save a copy in Backup; when I open all was empty.

I am in shock. I never lost so much data. [2009-07-24 15:16]

 a: Why is this still at version 2? As development releases slow down, I hope Mozilla doesn't end development for Thunderbird. [2009-07-28 17:26]

 Pannonius: I have pressed the "Update" button (unfortunately didn't unchecked the option for checking for updates), so Thunderbird Portable 2.0.0.16 update itself to Thunderbird 3-and-who-knows-which-version. Result: All my accounts with messages went out, all the settings gone, it cannot remember my passwords any more, it do not give me an option to use password manager to remember password, so I have to put passwords every time I start Thunderbird. I could say that it destroyed himself. Other thing: it could import settings and address books from other email clients, except from itself (it is an instruction on Mozilla Knowledge Base, but you could see on forums that it not works at all! Neither the password remembering workaround. So, my experience tells that Thunderbird is an amazing software until it works. It has plenty of excellent options, but you could anytime loose your setup and data. After you recover them, it will be the shadow of the previous Thunderbird: lot of bugs will force you to choose another email software. And, for the end: There are lots of complains posted to forums, but no one answered, it seems that Mozilla crew do not care! [2009-09-03 09:25]

 Derek: Love Thunderbird, but the portable version is crapware.

I've lost everything off of three different flash drives within 8 months, and all unrecoverable.

Avoid at all costs. [2009-09-20 05:43]

 freakazoid: Not loving Thunderbird 3.

It synchronizes alll your IMAP mail; I had like a 500MB Thunderbird install afterwards!

I'll give it some more time before I try it again. [2009-12-09 23:48]

 Nick: @freakazoid, Tools > Account Settings > Synchronization and Storage, uncheck "Keep messages for this account on this computer" [2010-01-29 01:58]

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