Peter's Blog

Using another PC at work and getting tired of Microsoft Exchange Web Access, a pretty poor web email application. What to do?

Put Portable Thunderbird on a Freecom USB hard disk and carry that around the building. I would use a flash drive but I would have to use my own and I don't want it performing excessive writes and using up the flashes erase cycles. I am using IMAP and keeping all the messages on the server but I don't want to take any chances. Portable Firefox does try to limit writes to flash.

The USB hard drive does appear to make the other PC I am using take about two minutes longer to boot which is more time to make coffee.

I copied the profile directory from my static thunderbird install to the portable one and it all seems to work fine.