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+ | ===== Mozilla Thunderbird ===== | ||
+ | {{linux: | ||
+ | The Thunderbird mail client inherits a lot of it's bigger relative //Mozilla Mail//, but the small and fast bird has a feature set that makes it a worthy alternative. | ||
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+ | ==== Showing new mail in IMAP subfolders ==== | ||
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+ | The folders in your IMAP account will by default not be shown with the number of unread emails. You can change this through the user interface, but then these folders are not automatically monitored for the arrival of new mail. There is a user preference line that you can add to your personal //user.js// preferences file.\\ | ||
+ | This file will not be overwritten by Thunderbird like the prefs.js file. Also, the preferences you set in //user.js// will override the same preference setting that might be present in the // | ||
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+ | This is what you do: | ||
+ | * Close Thunderbird | ||
+ | * Open //user.js// in an editor (possibly that file does not yet exist, in which case you just create it) | ||
+ | * Add this line to the file: < | ||
+ | user_pref(" | ||
+ | * Re-start Thunderbird. | ||
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+ | From this moment on, Thunderbird will also (periodically if you told it to) check the subfolders of your IMAP inbox. | ||
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+ | ==== Encryption ==== | ||
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+ | Mozilla Mail and it's descendants like Thunderbird, | ||
+ | EnigMail takes care of transparently decrypting and encrypting your emails, as well as verifying signed emails automatically with a pre-defined GPG keyserver. | ||
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+ | === Adding GPG public key and fingerprint as custom headers to your outgoing emails === | ||
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+ | With Thunderbird, | ||
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+ | We're going to profit from this feature by using it to add information about our GPG public key and fingerprint to each email we send, using these custom headers. Easiest is, to open your '' | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | user_pref(" | ||
+ | user_pref(" | ||
+ | user_pref(" | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | Of course, the values are those of my own GPG key (**0xA75CBDA0**), | ||
+ | gpg --fingerprint 0xA75CBDA0 | ||
+ | gpg --fingerprint Eric Hameleers | ||
+ | gpg --fingerprint</ | ||
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+ | If your Thunderbird profile contains more than one identity, you might have to copy the three lines above multiple times, substituting the **id1** with //id2//, //id3//, and so on. |