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[[!meta title="Emailing and reading news with Thunderbird"]]
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To start <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> choose
<span class="menuchoice">
<span class="guimenu">Applications</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guisubmenu">Internet</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guimenuitem">Thunderbird</span></span>.
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To start <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> choose
<span class="menuchoice">
<span class="guimenu">Applications</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guisubmenu">Internet</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guimenuitem">Thunderbird</span></span>.
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<p>To store your
emails, feeds, and settings across different working sessions,
turn on the [[Thunderbird|doc/first_steps/ Email Client|persistenct_storage/configure#thunderbird]]
feature of the Persistent Storage.</p>
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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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For more detailed documentation, refer tovisit the [official
<span class="application">Thunderbird</span>
help [*Thunderbird* Support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird) website.
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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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<p>To start this assistant again in the future from the main window of
<span class="application">Thunderbird</span>, choose
<span class="menuchoice">
<span class="guimenu">[[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="Menu" class=symbolic link=no]]</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guimenuitem">Account Settings</span>
</span> and then, from the <span class="guilabel">Account Settings</span>
dialog, choose <span class="guilabel">Account Actions</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guilabel">Add Mail Account&hellip;</span>.</p>
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Enter your name, email address, and password into the corresponding fields.
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<h2>Gmail</h2>
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<p>You can use your Gmail account with <i>Thunderbird</i> in Tails.</p>
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<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>
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These enhancements are inherited from the former [*TorBirdy*](https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/torbirdy) extension.
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To use <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> in you*Thunderbird* in another language, you can
install the <span class="command"code>thunderbird-l10n-<span class="command-placeholder">lang</span></spancode>
package using the [[Additional Software|doc/first_stepspersistent_storage/additional_software]]
feature. Replace <span class="command-placeholder">lang</span> with the code
for your language. For example, <span class="command">es</span> for Spanish or
<span class="command">de</span> for German`vi` for Vietnamese.
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To use *Thunderbird* in another language, you can
install the <code>thunderbird-l10n-<span class="command-placeholder">lang</span></code>
package using the [[Additional Software|persistent_storage/additional_software]]
feature. Replace <span class="command-placeholder">lang</span> with the code
for your language. For example, `vi` for Vietnamese.
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Tails already includes language packages for Arabic, German, Spanish, Farsi, French, Hindi, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Simplified Chinese.
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[List of available *Thunderbird* language packages](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=thunderbird-l10n&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all)
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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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<h2 id="masterprimary-password">Setting up a MasterPrimary Password (recommended)</h2>
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<h2 id="primary-password">Setting up a Primary Password (recommended)</h2>
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In *Thunderbird*, OpenPGP private keys are not protected by a passphrase. That's why we recommend that you set up a MasterPrimary Password.
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In *Thunderbird*, OpenPGP private keys are not protected by a passphrase. That's why we recommend that you set up a Primary Password.
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With a MasterPrimary Password, your private key is encrypted in your *Thunderbird* profile and is only unlocked while *Thunderbird* is running. If your *Thunderbird* profile is stored in your Persistent Storage, then your private key is encrypted twice: once by *Thunderbird* in your profile and a second time by the encryption of the Persistent Storage.
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With a Primary Password, your private key is encrypted in your *Thunderbird* profile and is only unlocked while *Thunderbird* is running. If your *Thunderbird* profile is stored in your Persistent Storage, then your private key is encrypted twice: once by *Thunderbird* in your profile and a second time by the encryption of the Persistent Storage.
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Choose **[[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="Menu" class="symbolic" link="no"]]&nbsp;▸ Settings**.
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Choose **Privacy & Security**.
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