export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1

[macintoshzoom]

I use two or more different Thunderbird profiles at once, so I'm
starting them with the conmmand:

$ MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 thunderbird -ProfileManager

As this is not the default normal way to start up Thunderbird,
What is the con about this? Ram consumption? CPU?

Thanks.

Mac

[Michael Lueck]

macintoshzoom wrote:
> $ MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 thunderbird -ProfileManager

Pretty neat trick, I will file that one away.

> As this is not the default normal way to start up Thunderbird,
> What is the con about this? Ram consumption? CPU?

RAM consumption, ja, multiple instances of TB will eat up RAM. However, do you have an alternative method to get done what you wish to get done?

CPU utilization I would think minor for each instance. TB is not terribly CPU hungry.

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

[Onno Ekker]

You can start also thunderbird with command line option -no-remote:
thunderbird -no-remote -P

But why do you need two profiles? In one profile you can configure more
than one account and per account you can specify more than one identity.

I thought more profiles are only needed if you use the computer with
more users and/or you need different versions of thunderbird for
testing, not for every day usage...

Onno

[macintoshzoom]

I am testing different addons, enigmail settings, no-proxy, torbutton or
presocksified starts, filter and spam rules, themes, etc., for different
accounts.
Some private ones, some for my job.

Besides this, I always had problems in the past when using different
accounts on the same profile, Thunderbird (was?) is unfunctional for
that, it tends to mix things if you are not very (read very) careful.
And it tends to use the same smtp server for all accounts.

I know there are some addons that helps about that "issues", I am
already testing some ones.

Mac.

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[Onno Ekker]

macintoshzoom wrote:
> I am testing different addons, enigmail settings, no-proxy, torbutton or
> presocksified starts, filter and spam rules, themes, etc., for different
> accounts.
> Some private ones, some for my job.

Right. For testing it makes sense to have multiple profiles. I do that
to for testing different versions of Thunderbird (1.5, 2.0, 3.0a) or
different locales or different extensions.

> Besides this, I always had problems in the past when using different
> accounts on the same profile, Thunderbird (was?) is unfunctional for
> that, it tends to mix things if you are not very (read very) careful.
> And it tends to use the same smtp server for all accounts.

Thunderbird only sets up one smtp server, but when you go to Account
Settings and select Outgoing Server (SMTP), you can add different SMTP
servers.

When you have setup the SMTP server, you can select it on an accounts
main setting screen as outgoing server to override the default server.

There's no need to use an extension for this...

Now back to your topic?

>> macintoshzoom wrote:
>>> I use two or more different Thunderbird profiles at once, so I'm

>>> ...

>>> What is the con about this? Ram consumption? CPU?

Apart from system resource like RAM and CPU I think it depends a little
on the situation. If you use two profiles that use the same local
directory, things might get mixed up.

If you use two profiles that access the same account, some mails might
show up in one profile and other mails in the other, depending on server
type (pop3 or imap) and settings (download or leave on server).

Onno