//This page groups a few tips concerning Thunderbird.//

To share one's profile between a Windows and a Linux machine (actually, whatever OS !), a solution is to put the profile in a shared directory ;-) To do so, launch thunderbird with the profilemanager option

<code>
thunderbird -profilemanager
</code>

and then, create a new profile & configure its directory.

====== Gmail settings ======

  * pop.gmail.com, SSL always
  * imap.gmail.com, SSL always, [[http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662|settings for Thunderbird]]
  * smtp.gmail.com, TLS always, port 587, with authentication