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I've been a happy user of Thunderbird since it existed. I can easily move all my emails off both my own self hosted email servers and commercial servers and kn
by LinuxBender 2y ago
I've been a happy user of Thunderbird since it existed. I can easily move all my emails off both my own self hosted email servers and commercial servers and know that I have multiple redundant backups and snapshots of my email folders. I use this to keep all that information off the mail servers so that when they get popped legally or otherwise I am not as exposed. Thunderbird also makes it very easy to PGP encrypt emails. PGP is not perfect but I am happy with "good enough". I've taught a couple law firms how to PGP encrypt emails so they have a fallback when their "Secure web portal" gets popped or has an outage. Many financial institutions are already very familiar with PGP albeit waving fists in the air in frustration with odd old weird libraries.
It may also be worth mentioning that Thunderbird supports addons similar to Firefox, including uBlock [1]. There is also Thunderbird for cell phones never tried it but purportedly also supports PGP.
[1] - https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/ubloc...
- ggpsv 2y agoIf you don't, can you expand on how you're doing this? Is it simply backing up the Thunderbird profile?
- LinuxBender 2y agoI rsync the files in the directory that I specified Thunderbird should store all the folders and associated data. I restore it any time I rebuild my OS, also with rsync. That backup goes to a NAS which then gets backed up to multiple external SSD/NVME and one of those goes in my vehicle as a low-effort off-site backup.