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.
You may create multiple profiles in Thunderbird and open only the one you want selecting it in about:profiles
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.
In the menu bar go to help > troubleshooting information. In the page that opens there 8s a link to about:profiles. All details are available on the mozilla website. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-thunderbird-profiles