At the core of Mobility Email is Mozilla Thunderbird, the wildly popular open source email client. The best thing about Mobility Email is that it’s totally mobile. You can take it anywhere with you on an iPod Shuffle (or any other USB device). Simply plug your USB key into any Windows computer in the world and boom. There’s all your email and all your contacts.
better invest in a decent IMAP account with webmail support
in the near future, contact and calendar will be stored in IMAP – Kmail / Kontact already supports it and there is a beta thunderbird extension for it
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Yes indeed. Dont you think using the term “wildly popular” is quite inappropriate? Should’nt it be “widely popular”?
A noble effort indeed, but is there anything about this that sets it apart from “portable thunderbird”? One little suggestion … screenshots and comparisons.
just take a look at http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/
I use many of the portable-ized mozilla apps, have been very impressed with them. Except when downloading with firefox, there is a little lag because I think it still uses the usb drive as a cache. plus I’m not sure if those school computers only had usb 1.1
Why was thsi mentioning of the Shuffle necessary? As if a Ipod were a major USB storage device? Why has it to be mentioned in the summary?
Couldn’t you do the same by storing your Outlook .pst file on a thumb drive?
Hi guys
This is Shane Coughlan, the lead developer on Mobility Email. Our offering is based on PortableThunderbird by John T Haller, but it contains several important extras:
It has OpenPGP encryption and signing of messages.
It has more extensions loaded.
It has a lot of helpfiles included to guide people through using it.
The real advantage of Mobility is that it runs happily on your USB device while still allowing you to use powerful services like GnuPG anywhere you go. You just plug your USB device into the host computer, click “Mobility” and off you go…
The reason we mention the iPod Shuffle? Well, that is my personal development platform. I put everything together on my Shuffle, and test it with it.
It has OpenPGP encryption and signing of messages.
Doesn’t that imply having your private key on your USB device? And isn’t that about the stupidest thing you could ever do with your private key is put it on a device that you can just ‘plug in to any computer and go’?
I am a big fan of PGP encryption but unintelligent use of it makes it nothing short of completely worthless.
You can just run Thunderbird off of your removable media.