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4 add-ons to improve your privacy on Thunderbird
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Thunderbird is a popular free email client developed by [Mozilla][1]. Similar to Firefox, Thunderbird offers a large choice of add-ons for extra features and customization. This article focuses on four add-ons to improve your privacy.
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### Enigmail
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Encrypting emails using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is the best way to keep their contents private. If you aren’t familiar with GPG, [check out our primer right here][2] on the Magazine.
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[Enigmail][3] is the go-to add-on for using OpenPGP with Thunderbird. Indeed, Enigmail integrates well with Thunderbird, and lets you encrypt, decrypt, and digitally sign and verify emails.
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### Paranoia
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[Paranoia][4] gives you access to critical information about your incoming emails. An emoticon shows the encryption state between servers an email traveled through before reaching your inbox.
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A yellow, happy emoticon tells you all connections were encrypted. A blue, sad emoticon means one connection was not encrypted. Finally, a red, scared emoticon shows on more than one connection the message wasn’t encrypted.
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More details about these connections are available, so you can check which servers were used to deliver the email.
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### Sensitivity Header
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[Sensitivity Header][5] is a simple add-on that lets you select the privacy level of an outgoing email. Using the option menu, you can select a sensitivity: Normal, Personal, Private and Confidential.
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Adding this header doesn’t add extra security to email. However, some email clients or mail transport/user agents (MTA/MUA) can use this header to process the message differently based on the sensitivity.
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Note that this add-on is marked as experimental by its developers.
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### TorBirdy
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If you’re really concerned about your privacy, [TorBirdy][6] is the add-on for you. It configures Thunderbird to use the [Tor][7] network.
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TorBirdy offers less privacy on email accounts that have been used without Tor before, as noted in the [documentation][8].
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> Please bear in mind that email accounts that have been used without Tor before offer **less** privacy/anonymity/weaker pseudonyms than email accounts that have always been accessed with Tor. But nevertheless, TorBirdy is still useful for existing accounts or real-name email addresses. For example, if you are looking for location anonymity — you travel a lot and don’t want to disclose all your locations by sending emails — TorBirdy works wonderfully!
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Note that to use this add-on, you must have Tor installed on your system.
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Photo by [Braydon Anderson][9] on [Unsplash][10].
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via: https://fedoramagazine.org/4-addons-privacy-thunderbird/
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作者：[Clément Verna][a]
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选题：[lujun9972](https://github.com/lujun9972)
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[a]:https://fedoramagazine.org
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[1]:https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
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[2]:https://fedoramagazine.org/gnupg-a-fedora-primer/
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[3]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/
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[4]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/paranoia/?src=cb-dl-users
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[5]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/sensitivity-header/?src=cb-dl-users
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[6]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/?src=cb-dl-users
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[7]:https://www.torproject.org/
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[8]:https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy
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[9]:https://unsplash.com/photos/wOHH-NUTvVc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText
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[10]:https://unsplash.com/search/photos/privacy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText
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