Mandando Emails e lendo noticias com o Thunderbird

We recommend using Thunderbird in Tails for:

• Reading and writing emails

• Reading RSS and Atom feeds for news and blogs

For more documentation, visit the official Thunderbird Support website.

Installing Thunderbird as additional software

Thunderbird is no longer included by default since Tails 7.8 (May 2026).

You can install Thunderbird as additional software.

A new version of Thunderbird is released in Debian shortly after each Tails release, because both Tails and Thunderbird follow the release calendar of Firefox. As a consequence, until Tails 7.5 (February 2026), the version of Thunderbird in Tails was almost always outdated, with known security vulnerabilities.

By installing Thunderbird as additional software, the latest version of Thunderbird is installed automatically from your Persistent Storage each time you start Tails.

To install Thunderbird as additional software:

1. Choose Apps ▸ Tails ▸ Persistent Storage to open the Persistent Storage settings.

   1. Create a Persistent Storage if you don't have one already.

   2. Make sure that the Additional Software feature is turned on.

   3. Turn on the Thunderbird Email Client feature.

   4. Close the Persistent Storage settings.

2. Restart Tails.

   To reopen this page after restarting Tails, choose Apps ▸ Tails ▸ Tails Documentation and go to Documentation ▸ Uncensored and anonymous Internet ▸ Emailing and reading news with Thunderbird.

   Tails detects that you have both the Thunderbird Email Client and Additional Software features of the Persistent Storage turned on and automatically adds Thunderbird to your list of additional software.

   Tails also tries to install as additional software the language package that corresponds to the language of this Tails session, if it exists. To use Thunderbird in another language, see using Thunderbird in another language.

3. Connect to the Tor network.

   Thunderbird is downloaded and installed in the background after you connected to the Tor network.

   This first installation can take several minutes. During this time, no Thunderbird launcher is available in the Apps menu.

   If you are comfortable with the command line and set up an administration password when starting Tails, you can execute the following command to track the progress of the download and installation:

   sudo journalctl -f -u tails-additional-software-upgrade.service

4. After Thunderbird is installed, choose Apps ▸ Internet ▸ Thunderbird to open Thunderbird.

   Thunderbird will be reinstalled automatically every time you start Tails. Future installations will be much faster since Thunderbird is already downloaded to your Persistent Storage.

Configuring an email account

1. When opening Thunderbird for the first time, an assistant appears to help you configure and access your email account.

2. Enter your name, email address, and password into the corresponding fields.

3. Clique em Continuar.

4. O assistente tenta configurar automaticamente as configurações corretas para conectar você ao seu provedor de email, se baseando no seu endereço de email.

   Se a configuração automática falhar, consulte seu provedor de email para saber como configurar sua conta de email manualmente.

5. Se a configuração automática funcionar, você talvez precise especificar um protocolo que deverá ser utilizado para se conectar ao seu provedor de email, seja IMAP, seja POP.

   • Com IMAP, o Thunderbird sincroniza constantemente com o servidor e mostra os emails e pastas que estão armazenados no servidor. IMAP é melhor caso você acesse seus emails a partir de sistemas operacionais diferentes.

   • Com POP, o Thunderbird baixa os emails que estão na caixa de entrada no servidor e possivelmente apaga-os do servidor. POP é melhor caso você acesse seus emails apenas a partir do Tails e armazena-os no armazenamento persistente.

   Para saber mais, também veja essa comparação entre POP e IMAP do Riseup.

Reading RSS and Atom news feeds

On top of reading emails, you can read news feeds that use the RSS and Atom standards in Thunderbird.

To create a feed account:

1. Choose  ▸ Account Settings from the main window of Thunderbird.

2. In the Account Settings tab, select the New Account button, and then Feed Account.

3. In the Feed Account Wizard, click Next and Finish.

   A new feed account named Blogs & News Feeds appears in the sidebar.

4. Click on the Manage Subscriptions button in the right pane.

5. In the Feed Subscriptions dialog, enter the URL of the news feed that you want to follow in the Feed URL field.

   For example, to subscribe to the Tails news feed, enter the following URL.

   https://tails.net/news/index.en.rss
   

   Sites often have a feed icon that points to their RSS or Atom feed.

   If a site has no feed icon, right-click on the home or news page of the site in Tor Browser and select View Page Source in the shortcut menu. In the source of the page look for a link of type application/rss+xml or application/atom+xml. Not all sites have a news feed.

   RSS and Atom are similar standards and their differences don't really matter to readers.

6. Click Add.

   Thunderbird verifies and downloads the content of the feed.

7. Close the Feed Subscriptions dialog and the Account Settings tab.

8. A new feed account named Blogs & News Feeds appears in the sidebar of the main window of Thunderbird.

Enhanced privacy

O Thunderbird no Tails é configurado para privacidade e anonimato adicionais.

Por exemplo, o Thunderbird no Tails:

• Remove informações sobre o idioma da sua sessão ou verificador ortográfico dos cabeçalhos dos emails que você envia.

• Remove informações dos cabeçalhos dos seus Emails que poderiam identificar que você está usando Tails.

• Apenas permite protocolos seguros e desativa protocolos inseguros, como SSLv3.

• Desativa as tecnologias de rastreamento, como cookies e JavaScript, ao visualizar emails ou feeds em HTML.

These enhancements are inherited from the former TorBirdy extension.

Using Thunderbird in another language

To use Thunderbird in another language, you can install the thunderbird-l10n-lang package using the Additional Software feature. Replace lang with the code for your language. For example, vi for Vietnamese.

Tails automatically installs the language packages for Arabic, German, Spanish, Farsi, French, Hindi, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Simplified Chinese.

List of available Thunderbird language packages

OpenPGP encryption

Veja também o OpenPGP no Thunderbird - Guia e questões frequentes (em inglês).

Setting up a Primary Password (recommended)

In Thunderbird, OpenPGP private keys are not protected by a passphrase. That's why we recommend that you set up a Primary Password.

With a Primary Password, your private key is encrypted in your Thunderbird profile and is only unlocked while Thunderbird is running. If your Thunderbird profile is stored in your Persistent Storage, then your private key is encrypted twice: once by Thunderbird in your profile and a second time by the encryption of the Persistent Storage.

1. Choose  ▸ Settings.

2. Choose Privacy & Security.

3. In the Passwords section, select the option Use a Primary Password.

4. In the Primary Password dialog, enter your Primary Password and click OK.

Importing an existing private key

Thunderbird usa um chaveiro diferente do GnuPG.

Se você já possuir uma chave OpenPGP privada fora do Thunderbird, siga as instruções abaixo para exporta-la do GnuPG e importa-la no Thunderbird.

Export your private key using Kleopatra

From the desktop:

1. Choose Apps ▸ Accessories ▸ Kleopatra.

2. Select the private key that you want to migrate to Thunderbird.

3. Choose File ▸ Backup Secret Keys… and save this private key to your Home folder.

4. Close Kleopatra.

Import your private key in Thunderbird

In Thunderbird:

1. Choose  ▸ Account Settings.

2. In the left pane, identify the account that corresponds to the private key that you want to import and choose End-to-End Encryption.

3. In the right pane, click the Add Key… button.

4. In the dialog that appears, select the option Import an existing OpenPGP Key and Continue.

5. Click the Select File to Import… button and choose the private key that your exported from Kleopatra.

6. In the next dialog, make sure that your private key is listed and that the option Treat this key as a Personal Key is selected.

7. Click Continue, enter the passphrase for your private key (if any), and click Continue again.

   Your private key should now be listed in the End-to-End Encryption settings of your account.

8. Select your private key to enable OpenPGP encryption for this account.

Generating a new OpenPGP private key

1. Choose  ▸ Account Settings.

2. In the left pane, identify the account for which you want to create a new OpenPGP private key and choose End-to-End Encryption.

3. In the right pane, click the Add Key… button.

4. In the Add a Personal OpenPGP Key dialog, choose Create a new OpenPGP Key.

5. Review the settings in the next dialog, click the Generate key button, and then click Confirm.

   Your private key should now be listed in the End-to-End Encryption settings of your account.

Encrypting an email

To prevent you from sending unencrypted emails by mistake, Thunderbird in Tails is configured with the option Enable encryption for new messages turned on by default in the account settings.

When composing an email:

• If the Encrypt toggle button is on, Thunderbird will encrypt the email before sending.

  Thunderbird warns you if you miss the key of some of the recipients or if you still have to accept some of their keys.

  Choose Security ▸ Key Assistant to see the keys of the receipts and solve any issue.

• To send an unencrypted email, turn off the Encrypt toggle button.