portable IMAP client for OS X?

October 13, 2005 1:11 PM

Is there a portable IMAP client that stores settings on a USB drive for OSX?

For a variety of reasons, my life is now shuffling from computer to computer via a 20 gig USB hard drive. The webmail for my ISP has some serious problems, making IMAP the preferred connection method. On the windows side I've found a portable thunderbird tweak that stores all of the settings in a local drive. However, I've not found an equivalent tweak for OSX. I suppose in a pinch I can just forward everything to my gmail, but I would prefer to have the ability to manage messages on my IMAP inboxes.

So far, my efforts to use the thunderbird profile manager have not been productive.

Option 1: Is there an IMAP client for Macintosh that will load settings from a place other than ~/Library ?

Option 2: Is there a safe way to pack up my settings and take them with me from system to system?

posted by KirkJobSluder to computers & internet (1 comment total)

Possibly not quite what you're looking for, but the Zoë portable webmail client supports IMAP and stores everything cleanly in one directory. (It starts a portable web server and you access it via the browser on localhost).
posted by IshmaelGraves at 1:39 PM on October 13, 2005