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<p>To store your
emails, feeds, and settings across different working sessions,
turn on the [[Thunderbird Email Client|persistent_storage/configure#thunderbird]]
feature of the Persistent Storage.</p>

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<h1 id="account">Configuring an email account</h1>

Enter your name, email address, and password into the corresponding fields.

If the automatic configuration fails, consult your email provider
about how to configure your email account manually.

To know more, see also this [comparison between POP and
IMAP](https://help.riseup.net/en/email/clients/#choose-imap-or-pop) by
Riseup.

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<h2>Gmail</h2>

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<h1 id="privacy">Enhanced privacy</h1>

These enhancements are inherited from the former [*TorBirdy*](https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/torbirdy) extension.

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<h1 id="language">Using Thunderbird in your language</h1>

<h1 id="openpgp">OpenPGP encryption</h1>

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<p>Since Tails 4.13 (November 2020), <em>Thunderbird</em> 78 replaces the
<em>Enigmail</em> extension with built-in support for OpenPGP encryption. If
you used <em>Enigmail</em> before Tails 4.13, follow our [[migration
instructions|openpgp_migration]].</p>