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- Reading and writing emails

Reading and writing emails

- Reading [[!wikipedia RSS]] and [[!wikipedia Atom_(Web_standard) desc="Atom"]] feeds for news and blogs

Reading [[!wikipedia RSS]] and [[!wikipedia Atom_(Web_standard) desc="Atom"]] feeds for news and blogs

For more detailed documentation, refer tovisit the [official
[*Thunderbird*
help Support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird) website.

For more documentation, visit the official [*Thunderbird* Support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird) website.

<p>The <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/instant-messaging-and-chat">chat
features of <i>Thunderbird</i></a> don't work in Tails.</p>

By installing *Thunderbird* as additional software, the latest version of *Thunderbird* is installed automatically from your Persistent Storage each time you start Tails.

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

<h2>Gmail</h2>

<p>You can use your Gmail account with <i>Thunderbird</i> in Tails.</p>

<ol>
<li>
<p>Make sure that you have 2-Step Verification turned on in your Gmail account.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839">Google Account Help: 2-Step Verification</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Configure the new account as IMAP when <i>Thunderbird</i> asks you to
choose between POP and IMAP.</p>
</li>
</ol>

On top of reading emails, you can read news feeds that use the RSS and Atom standards in *Thunderbird*.

To create a feed account:

Choose **[[!img lib/open-menu.png link="no" class="symbolic" alt="Menu"]]&nbsp;▸ Account Settings** from the main window of *Thunderbird*.

In the **Account Settings** tab, select the **New Account** button, and then **Feed Account**.

In the **Feed Account Wizard**, click **Next** and **Finish**.

A new feed account named **Blogs & News Feeds** appears in the sidebar.

Click on the **Manage Subscriptions** button in the right pane.

In the **Feed Subscriptions** dialog, enter the URL of the news feed that you want to follow in the **Feed URL** field.

For example, to subscribe to the Tails news feed, enter the following URL.

Sites often have a feed icon <i class="fa fa-rss"></i> that points to their
RSS or Atom feed.