FIXME: Cette section est obsolète, donc merci de ne pas en tenir compte. Tails utilise maintenant Claws Mail à la place de Thunderbird.

Not everyone is happy using webmail (like the authors) but want to use a real email client instead of some fragile web-based interface. For that we have included Mozilla Thunderbird which looks like this:

Composing email looks like this:

Notice that there are buttons for PGP encryption in both of the above windows (labelled with "Decrypt" and "OpenPGP"). These are provided by the Enigmail extension, and pressing any of them for the first time will start a guide for setting up PGP, possibly generating new keys if you do not have any. Their web site is a great resource for learning how PGP encryption works so make sure to check it out.

Setting up your email account requires a tiny amount of knowledge, like what POP, IMAP and SMTP is, and indeed that your email service supports these. This step-by-step guide might be useful. However, this initial configuration requires writing down the addresses of the servers involved, downloading mail, etc. which will take some time. It is a bit annoying to have to redo everytime you start Tails, which is necessary when running from a DVD, so you might want to consider using a persistent home directory by running from USB if you plan to use Thunderbird often. One more thing to consider is that Tor exit nodes usually block the plaintext SMTP port (25) in order to prevent spam. This is easily fixed by enabling end-to-end encryption with the email server through SSL, which you should do any way for all of POP, IMAP and SMTP as your password otherwise will be sent in plaintext.