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Multiple instances of Thunderbird

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PWither
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I want to open multiple instances of Thunderbird, each using a different profile and each instance on a different workspace. I read how to do this on a Linux box (in terminal use the command "~/thunderbird/thunderbird -P -no-remote"). It also stated that this was intended to be used for debugging.

My questions are: 1) Is it safe to open multiple instances? 2) Will this feature be deprecated? 3) It is possible to do this on a Macintosh (10.12 and above)? If so, how does one launch multiple instances?

Thanks, PWither

I want to open multiple instances of Thunderbird, each using a different profile and each instance on a different workspace. I read how to do this on a Linux box (in terminal use the command "~/thunderbird/thunderbird -P -no-remote"). It also stated that this was intended to be used for debugging. My questions are: 1) Is it safe to open multiple instances? 2) Will this feature be deprecated? 3) It is possible to do this on a Macintosh (10.12 and above)? If so, how does one launch multiple instances? Thanks, PWither

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Not to me. If i'm working on Project X and a message comes in for Project Y, I'd like to be able to see the Project Y notification immediately. If you are able to set up strict isolation between your "workspaces" that may not happen.

If you took it a further step and created a distinct user account for each project then you'd automatically get a discrete Thunderbird profile in each user login. It comes down to how separated you want your "workspaces" to be.

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Zenos
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Your command line doesn't look quite right. Have you installed the executable into your own home folder? 

~/thunderbird/thunderbird -P -no-remote

should normally be something like : 

 thunderbird -profile <path> -no-remote

You can use: 

which thunderbird

to find the "official" location.

IIRC the -P switch as shown will start the profile manager. You can instead pass either the name of the required profile or its pathname. Check all the variants of this switch.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_Command_Line_Arguments

1) Is it safe to open multiple instances? I don't know of any danger apart from risks to user sanity. I get by with all my accounts, private and work, in one instance if Thunderbird.

2) Will this feature be deprecated? I doubt it. I don't know of any specific plans to kill it.

3) It is possible to do this on a Macintosh (10.12 and above)? If so, how does one launch multiple instances? I don't use a mac but the command line feature works on both Linux and Windows. Your main problem may be discovering where to edit your launcher.

PWither
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Thank you very much Zenos.

My objective is to have different email addresses for each of my projects and each project assigned to a different workspace. That way I can flip from one workspace to another to switch projects without having everything intermingled.

Does that seem sensible?

Zenos
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Not to me. If i'm working on Project X and a message comes in for Project Y, I'd like to be able to see the Project Y notification immediately. If you are able to set up strict isolation between your "workspaces" that may not happen.

If you took it a further step and created a distinct user account for each project then you'd automatically get a discrete Thunderbird profile in each user login. It comes down to how separated you want your "workspaces" to be.