Sign & Encrypt your Emails with Thunderbird/Enigmail

This tutorial will already assume you have thunderbird installed, be it your distro’s package or the Mozilla Builds. We will also assume you have installed the Enigmail extension, luckily for me openSuse provides this with their default Thunderbird install from their repo’s.

Thunderbird’s Most Underrated Feature: Identities

There are many good reasons to use Thunderbird 2 as your default desktop email client. Mozilla’s Thunderbird feature page lists some of them: advanced views, decent searching, security, junk mail screening, RSS feeds, add-on plugins and themes, cross-platform versions, and more.

However, there is one feature in Thunderbird that gets less press, yet is handled so beautifully as compared to other desktop clients it’s about time someone stood on a platform and sang its praises: identities.

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