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[[!meta title="Emailing and reading news with Thunderbird"]]
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Tails includes <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> for:
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<h1 id="account">Configuring an email account</h1>
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When starting <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> for the first time, an assistant appears to guide you through the process of configuring <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> to access your email account.
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Enter your name, email address, and password into the corresponding fields.
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Click <span class="guilabel">Continue</span>.
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The assistant tries to configure automatically the correct settings to connect to your email provider based on your email address.
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If the automatic configuration fails, consult your email provider
about how to configure your email account manually.
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If the automatic configuration succeeds, you might have to specify which protocol to use to connect to your email provider, either <span class="guilabel">IMAP</span> or <span class="guilabel">POP</span>.
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- With <span class="guilabel">IMAP</span>,
<span class="application">Thunderbird</span> constantly synchronizes
with the server and displays the emails and folders that are
currently stored on the server. IMAP is better suited if you access
your emails from different operating systems.
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- With <span class="guilabel">POP</span>,
<span class="application">Thunderbird</span> downloads the emails that
are in the inbox on the server and possibly deletes them from the
server. POP is better suited if you access your emails from Tails only
and store them in the Persistent Storage.
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To know more, see also this [comparison between POP and
IMAP](https://help.riseup.net/en/email/clients/#choose-imap-or-pop) by
Riseup.
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<h1 id="privacy">Enhanced privacy</h1>
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<span class="application">Thunderbird</span> in Tails is configured
for additional privacy and anonymity.
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For example, <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> in Tails:
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Removes information about the language of your session or spellchecker from the headers of the emails that you send.
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Removes information that could identify you as a Tails user from the headers of your emails.
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