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[[!meta title="Emailing and reading news with Thunderbird"]]
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Tails includes *Thunderbird* for:
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To start *Thunderbird* choose **Applications ▸ Internet ▸ Thunderbird**.
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For more documentation, visit the official [*Thunderbird* Support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird) website.
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When starting *Thunderbird* for the first time, an assistant appears to guide you through the process of configuring *Thunderbird* to access your email account.
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<p>To start this assistant again in the future from the main window of
<i>Thunderbird</i>, choose
<b>[[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="Menu" class=symbolic link=no]]&nbsp;▸ Account Settings</b>
and then, from the <b>Account Settings</b>
dialog, choose <b>Account Actions</b>&nbsp;▸
<b>Add Mail Account&hellip;</b>.</p>
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Click **Continue**.
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The assistant tries to configure automatically the correct settings to connect to your email provider based on your email address.
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If the automatic configuration succeeds, you might have to specify which protocol to use to connect to your email provider, either **IMAP** or **POP**.
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- With **IMAP**,
*Thunderbird* constantly synchronizes
with the server and displays the emails and folders that are
currently stored on the server. IMAP is better suited if you access
your emails from different operating systems.
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- With **POP**,
*Thunderbird* downloads the emails that
are in the inbox on the server and possibly deletes them from the
server. POP is better suited if you access your emails from Tails only
and store them in the Persistent Storage.
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*Thunderbird* in Tails is configured
for additional privacy and anonymity.
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For example, *Thunderbird* in Tails:
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Removes information about the language of your session or spellchecker from the headers of the emails that you send.
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Removes information that could identify you as a Tails user from the headers of your emails.
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Only allows secure protocols and disables insecure protocols, like SSLv3.
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Disables tracking technologies, like cookies and JavaScript, when viewing emails or feeds in HTML.
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<div class="caution">
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<p><i>GnuPG</i> and <i>[[Kleopatra|encryption_and_privacy/kleopatra]]</i>
allow you to work with OpenPGP encrypted text and files. Consider using
<i>Kleopatra</i> instead of <i>Thunderbird</i> if you want to exchange encrypted text and files, but
not by email.</p>
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<p>The OpenPGP keys stored in <i>GnuPG</i> and <i>Kleopatra</i> are separate from the keys
stored in <i>Thunderbird</i>.</p>
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