Are you using Thunderbird portable as well as about everyone else I have seen lately with popstat issues?

Trabiss said

After the last update and to be honest moving my profile folder to another location so I can work on multiple computers I get a huge problem. Everytime when i start up Thunderbird I get many popstate-xx.dat folders.. Sometimes even more than 100 !! And I do have a few mail addresses there so i get hundreds of this files that is causing a problem and I also get a folder Inbox (File with conflict Windows xxx my computer name 2014-12-28 ) This is also coming every time.. I tried to delete some files inside the profile folder (when Thunderbird was closed) but nothing seems to help. This is seriously effecting my company and I am asking urgently for a solution. I see more people have this problem. Please help.

Matt said

Are you using Thunderbird portable as well as about everyone else I have seen lately with popstat issues?

Hey Matt,

Thjanks for the reply and sorry for my later response.. No I am not using a Portable version Only the normal (latest version) thunderbird. I found out what the cause and it seems Thunderbird cannot handle a shared profile very well. I tried to put my profile in dropbox and this way I was planning to work with two computers (office and home office). But unfortunately it gives a lot of headache. I placed back the profile in the default location and tried again (after removing a lot of postate-xx.dat files). Now it is working normal again but at this moment my mail is not synchronised anymore. I had to solve it now with one Thunderbird saying leave the mail on the server. It is a shame that it did not work but too much trouble forged me to it. If you have a great idea it would be very welcome.

The portable version and a large usb drive would do it, manual but effective.

The best approach is imap mail accounts, as by definition they synchronize. I have also heard of people running their own mail server on their local network to aggregate various mail accounts and act as the "shared" data-store

Matt said

The portable version and a large usb drive would do it, manual but effective. The best approach is imap mail accounts, as by definition they synchronize. I have also heard of people running their own mail server on their local network to aggregate various mail accounts and act as the "shared" data-store

Hey Matt,

I will check out the IMAP mail as this will be much better for me. Thanks for the support and please keep up the good work for the Thunderbird mail client.