Hi, I'm looking for a mail client that is well suited for managing multiple identities and can easily handle routing everything over an anonymity network.

I would use Thunderbird, but I think when you take it online, it downloads from all your connected email accounts. I want to "go online" at will toward particular email addresses, in other words I do not want my upstream mail provider to be able to associate my accounts in any way, including access time, assuming there is a large enough other pool of people using the same client/anonymity network.

Are there any that are well made for this purpose? Otherwise I will use the mail frontend over Tor or something, but it would be nice to have a lightweight client-side application too so I can keep my emails downloaded and delete them from the server.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You may create multiple profiles in Thunderbird and open only the one you want selecting it in about:profiles

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm having a hard time finding how to access about:profiles, but in looking for this I found you can disable the "download messages on startup" option. Maybe Thunderbird is the solution. It will require some more investigation, but this is giving me hope.

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