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
ke1th3...@gmail.com
0447 667 468