[tor-talk] Maintaining your privacy sending e-mails

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 7/7/2011 1:04 AM, jsz wrote:
>> How do you manage to send e-mails? I'd like to send e-mails in an
>> anonymous way but most of the webmails make it very difficult....
> Try to use an anonymous e-mail account and connect to that account via
> TOR. E-mails shoud be encrypted locally (with GnuPG) so that servers do
> not see the unencrypted text. Mail shoul be stored locally on a
> Truecrypt volume.
>
> Jacek Szymona
I'm just throwing this out there - haven't used / investigated it.  
Thunderbird (5, maybe 3?) has a selection under Options to "Encrypt this 
message."  Have NOT read what type encryption or effectiveness.  A very 
brief search a few wks ago turned up nothing.

In compose window, when click the "use encryption," if you haven't set 
it up, will get a popup, "You need to set up one or more personal 
certificates before you can use this security feature. Would you like to 
do so now?"  That's as far as I got investigating it.

Enigmail addon for Thunderbird is fairly popular & uses GnuPG for 
encryption.  I've been thinking of trying it myself.