Good evening All

Just wondering if this is ALL good advice?

Should I use it for ALL my mail, or just sensitive stuff, like lobbying politicians.

Thanks

Enhance your email security

    Encrypt your mail! For enhanced message security use Encrypted Email.
There are many vulnerabilities with how secure connections work. If you need high security, you should always connect to Riseup services using the Riseup VPN. This will prevent a long list of potential attacks against your communication. To enhance connection security you can use Tor to connect to Riseup’s .onion services for IMAP and SMTP. Look for the onion address for mail.riseup.net and smtp.riseup.net addresses and use those instead. Note: * SMTP port 465 is often blocked by exit nodes, but port 587 is less frequently blocked. If you have a problem sending mail, try port 587 or configure your client to use Riseup’s email hidden service in place of the regular mail.riseup.net domain. This is better than sending traffic through a Tor exit as it is MITM resistant, but it will generate certificate errors on the client side.

Add some extensions

We suggest these extensions for Thunderbird:

Enigmail: get started in no time encrypting and decrypting emails and verifying that emails you receive are from the people who you expect them to be. Display Quota: This extension will display the current status of your IMAP quota in Thunderbird’s statusbar and will warn you when you reach a configurable limit. TorBirdy: This extension configures Thunderbird to make connections over the Tor anonymity network.

Use hidden options to speed up Thunderbird

Per default every time you open a mail or change the status Thunderbird connects to the mail server. For slow connections or when Riseup’s servers are busy this can be pain.

Luckily there is a fix: Thunderbird has some hidden options, that a does a complete sync when connecting the server. This will speed up your work flow and makes your day better.

To set this, go to the menu Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor

    set use_status_for_biff to false
    set mail.server.default.autosync_offline_stores to true


Keith Bainbridge

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