[tor-talk] TBird & torbirdy

[u]

Hi!

On 17.11.19 20:40, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 04:59:50PM -0500, eliaz wrote:
>> I just installed Thunderbird 68.22 on a new machine and find out that the
>> torbirdy extension cannot be installed in versions above 60. I've been
>> running Thunderbird with the -p flag so that when I run over the Tor Browser
>> Bundle 9.01 I can use the torbirdied instance. Does TBird 68.22 no longer
>> need to be torified? Thanks for any enlightenment. - eli
> 
> It is alas worse than that: somebody needs to look at the new 68esr and
> evaluate it for privacy flaws, and nobody has had time + expertise to
> do it. So there is no Torbirdy for recent Thunderbird because nobody
> has made one:
> https://bugs.torproject.org/31341

It even looks like it is not possible, see:
https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/17149#note-6
and https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/17219.
This also means that you will have Tor support for Email in Tails.

The same happens to Enigmail:
https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/17147

cheers!
- u.