On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 11:06 -0800, Mason Hock wrote: > I'm not aware of a TorBirdy equivalent for any other mail client. The > instructions for torifying an email client say to use Thunderbird instead > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/EMail > > and the instructions for using TorBirdy in Thunderbird say "Thunderbird is > not safe to use with Tor (yet)!" (although it's apparently better than > attempting to torify a mail client yourself) > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/EMail/Thunderbird > > The other options are webmail (ew), a distro that sends everything through > Tor like Tails or Heads (overkill for me), or not using Tor for emails. Since > I do not send emails anonymously the only benefit of Tor would be hiding my > location from my mail provider. Shortly before I switched from Gmail I was > using their HTML-only webmail through Tor Browser because I especially did > not want that mail provider tracking me. (This was short-term damage control, > of course. No one should use Gmail at all.) I still would like to send emails > through Tor, but it not my first priority anymore. It's maybe my sixth or > seventh priority. At the moment I am using Mutt, not through Tor. > > If I learn more I'll let you know. As far as I know right now these are the > options for sending emails through Tor. > > (1) Tails or Heads (good)
Heads sucks. The developer says they don't want it to be easy to use, because anything that makes a system easy for the average person to use is "bloat". But, that's where they get you. Spies always wait for the user to break because the interface is too inconvenient, and so they say "oh, all right, I won't encrypt this time."
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