360987 - Create a Portable version of Penelope, like Thunderbird Portable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 360376

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Matt Dudziak]

From the wiki:
I am a LONG time user of Eudora but recently I have been using Thunderbird Portable (TBP) and love the ability to have an email client on a USB stick. While I use Eudora on my main desktop PC, I find it necessary for me to send and receive mail throughout the day while away from my main desktop PC. TBP is no Eudora, but it is an acceptable substitute because of its portable nature.

I would very much like to see a portable version of Penelope. So, please... modify Eudora in such a way that it does not write to the Windows Registry and make sure all DLL files reside within the application directory. Please use relative path names don't use specific drive letter mappings. 

See http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable for more information about Portable Thunderbird.

Should there be a portable version of Penelope? If you think there should be, vote for this bug.

Comment 1

[Love Eudora]

This seems to be a duplicate of bug #360736.

Comment 2

[Carlo Gubitosa]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This seems to be a duplicate of bug #360736.
> 

Yes, it is a duplicate of bug #360736, please close this bug as duplicate so we can avoid to disperse votes.

Comment 3

[Matt Dudziak]

*** Bug 360736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[rhx11]

Maybe this is a duplicate request, or maybe not.  I use old Eudora 4.2 and copy the application folder between desktop to laptop or wherever, and manipulate mail folders, addresses, etc. as I please wherever I am, then copy any revisions back to master archive copy.  Because this version is completely self-contained, all information resides in one convenient folder, which I place in a user area of any drive.  Since I always use drive i: folder email, this works on all my systems, and there are no dangling pieces in registry or anywhere.  

I hope this bug effort will produce a similar product.
Thanks

Comment 5

[Joseph W Donahue]

If there is a portable version of Thunderbird that is well maintained and not too far of the main branch, then why not use that as the basis for Penelope?  

In any case, doesn't this really come down to how much effort will be required to move, import/export our emails and attachments?  Or is it about combining software installation on any machine with the movement of our emails?

Comment 6

[jemm4jemm]

This self-contained and portability approach is also crucial in from another aspect.

Typical SME environment seems to be Windows for workstations + Samba for fileserver and domain controller. In this case the most rational way to admin all the tens or hundreds workstations is to prepare installation scripts for deployment of installations and updates to all the workstations. And that requires this portablility and self-containability approach.

All this can be taken advantage in two ways:
- portability of the application only (e.g. copying to c:\blahh)
- portability of the application and application data (mailboxes, conf, etc) all together in one folder (e.g. copy wherever and it works with all your mail data)

Current Eudora 3.x-7.x in fact is 99% portable this way (some tweaking needed) and it would be good if that approach continues.

At the end of the day that would also boil down to the fact that .zip or .7z installations should be availabe (as in Seamonkey and VLC Media Player) - just download, unpack and deploy to right destination.

Comment 8

[Carlo Gubitosa]

This bug was closed as duplicate of #360376, that was closed as fixed. Does this mean that now a portable version of Penelope is available to be installed on a USB pendrive? If this is not the case, I think that this ticket should be reopened.