Query about Multiple Instances of Netscape **SOLVED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 02/16/2013 12:49 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 02/16/2013 01:08 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I have 2 e-mail addresses assigned to a single system running 12.04.2
>> LTS and need to have both of them available concurrently.
>>
>
> The usual thing to do in this instance is to add both accounts to Thunderbird.
> Thunderbird is very good at keeping your identities seperate, if that is what
> you require.  (ie, when you reply to a message, you reply from the account which
> received the message, which can have it's own Name, e-mail address, and even
> outgoing e-mail server if they have to go out through their own.)
>
> However, to answer your question as asked, you can launch Thunderbird with
> -no-remote and -ProfileManager switches, which will allow you to launch two
> instances of Thuderbird, with a completely different profile, simultaneously.
> I've found that more useful with Firefox.
>
>
Thanks Rashkae

I added the following entries to my start up tasks:

thunderbird -no-remote -P default
thunderbird -no-remote -P My-Profile


Works just as I want it!

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Jay Ridgley
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