From d6d8e8a8be457181822102bd101e8d7c25393275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikaela Suomalainen Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:03:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add Thunderbird / Icedove guide. Now to fix links and then this branch can be merged into master. --- articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html.md | 2 + articles/guides/Thunderbird-Icedove.html.md | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+) create mode 100644 articles/guides/Thunderbird-Icedove.html.md diff --git a/articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html.md b/articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html.md index cb9cdad..783183a 100644 --- a/articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html.md +++ b/articles/guides/GPG/Enigmail.html.md @@ -101,3 +101,5 @@ These headers appear in email source like this: OpenPGP: id=82A46728; url=http://mkaysi.github.com/PGP/key.txt ``` + +Creative Commons License
Enigmail guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at mkaysi.github.com. diff --git a/articles/guides/Thunderbird-Icedove.html.md b/articles/guides/Thunderbird-Icedove.html.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b47f92d --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/guides/Thunderbird-Icedove.html.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +# Thunderbird / Icedove guide + +## What do you need? + +### Debian + +On Debian you need package Icedove, but you should also install Enigmail and GnuPG and GnuPG2 + +> # aptitude install icedove enigmail gnupg gnupg2 + +### Ubuntu + +On Ubuntu you should install same packages as with Debian, but Icedove is called as Thunderbird. + +> # aptitude install icedove enigmail gnupg gnupg2 + +### Mac OS X + +You need Thunderbird, but you should also install GPG-Tools and Enigmail. + +### Windows + +You need at Thunderbird, but you should also install GPG4Win and Enigmail. + +## Setting up + +When you open Thunderbird / Icedove for the first time, it will ask for email address and password. Give them and Thunderbird will attempt to find the details and after that it downloads emails from the server. + +## Sending plaintext. + +To send emails in plaintext, open Edit --> Account settings --> Composition & Addressing and uncheck the box "Compose messages in HTML format. + +### Why to not send emails in HTML? + +See my complaining about HTML usage [here]. + +## Sending UTF-8. + +This doesn't affect emails with any visible way. It might just remove some charters in message source and it will allow you to send more charters than some latin1 charset. It might also remove charset line in PGP/INLINE signed emails. + +Open Edit --> Preferences --> Display --> Formatting --> Advanced... --> Character Encodings and set both "Outgoing Mail" and "Incoming Mail" as "Unicode UTF-8" and check the checkbox "When possible, use the default character encoding in replies." + +## Why to send emails in UTF-8? + +I am going to write explaining for this later. + +## Read also + +My GPG guide and my Enigmail guide. + +Creative Commons License
Thunderbird / Icedove guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at mkaysi.github.com.