Few clicks, few questions/answers => a working, configured, simple Mail User Agent (MUA) with GnuPG support.

• Rationale
• Implementation
  • Which MUA?
  • Miscellaneous ideas
• Next steps

Rationale¶

• Heavy use of webmail software tends to be an awful user experience with Tor enabled.
• GnuPG integration into webmail software (with keys stored on the client) is not achieved yet, despite work being done to do so in RoundCube, SquirrelMail et al.; dedicated MUA software really perform better for this task
• firegpg+webmail is too annoying when receiving pgp-mime encrypted email

Implementation¶

Which MUA?¶

Thunderbird, as every Mozilla software, is a mess to configure programmatically. It also may have a bit too many complicated configuration options for the "one size fits all" solution being seeked.

Claws Mail seems quite easy to configure programmatically; being lighter and simpler, it probably better fits our mission. See the "Deploying Claws Mail" section of the Claws Mail User Manual for details about pre-seeding configuration so that the configuration wizard asks only the few questions needed.

Early "audit":./applications_audit/claws_mail.html is quite positive, and documents the prefs variables an easy configuration tool should set for better privacy.

We now ship Claws Mail.

Miscellaneous ideas¶

• Running the MUA should trigger a Tor identity change, so that one can quit'n'relaunch it without linking several identities.
• Preconfigured IMAP/SMTP/SSL server settings for various "non-commercial ISPs":./better_support_of_non-commercial_ISPs.html, and a radiobox to select one; custom server setting must obviously be available as well.

Next steps¶

Closed, since we want to "Return of Icedove?":./Return_of_Icedove__63__.html