Portable Thunderbird Email Client

your email, on the go... no webmail required

Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. You can also get it with GPG and Enigmail preconfigured to encrypt and sign your email.

Download Standard 1.5.0.2 for Windows, English 5.9MB Languages | Details | Zip download

Like Portable Thunderbird? Consider using the standard version, too:

Features

Mozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, the portable version leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and adress book with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Thunderbird...

Support

For help getting up and running, visit Portable Thunderbird Support:

You can also post a note in the Portable Thunderbird Support Forum.

Download Details

File size:
- Standard: 5.9MB (download), 21.7MB (unzipped and installed)
- with Enigmail+GPG: 7MB (download), 27.4MB (unzipped and installed)
Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
Date updated: May 1, 2006
System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Thunderbird: MPL)
Source Code: Launcher source (included), Thunderbird source
MD5 Hash (for the geeks):
- Standard: 667a5786796a08846efe383bf96f3aa4
- with GPG+Enigmail: cbfe358b220b8960ccd3e20a8733e736
Downloads: 152,000+

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Gerard Balagué (mai9) for the original code handling extension path rewriting in his FreeTheFox launcher and tracon for some of the original ideas with his fflaunch launcher. Thanks to John Urbaneck for contributing code and ideas to enable GPG support. Thanks as well to FlashBanG and all the folks participating in the mozillaZine forum thread for their ideas, suggestions and support.