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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.
Thunderbird /
Icedove guide is licensed under a
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Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
License.
Based on a work at
mkaysi.github.com.