Adds: Email Clients

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**[Mailfence](https://mailfence.com?src=digitald)** | Mailfence supports OpenPGP so that you can manually exchange encryption keys independently from the Mailfence servers, putting you in full control. Mailfence has a simple UI, similar to that of Outlook, and it comes with bundled with calendar, address book, and files. All mail settings are highly customizable, yet still clear and easy to use. Sign up is not anonymous, since your name, and prior email address is required. There is a fully-featured free plan, or you can pay for premium, and use a custom domain ($2.50/ month, or $7.50/ month for 5 domains), where BitCoin, LiteCoin or credit card is accepted
**[MailBox.org](https://mailbox.org/)** | A Berlin-based, eco-friendly secure mail provider. There is no free plan, the standard service costs €12/year. You can use your own domain, with the option of a [catch-all alias](https://kb.mailbox.org/display/MBOKBEN/Using+catch-all+alias+with+own+domain). They provide good account security and email encryption, with OpenPGP, as well as encrypted storage. There is no dedicated app, but it works well with any standard mail client with SSL. There's also currently no anonymous payment option
See [OpenTechFund- Secure Email](https://github.com/OpenTechFund/secure-email) for more details.
**See also** [Email Security Checklist](/README.md#emails)
#### Other Notable Mentions
[HushMail](https://www.hushmail.com/tapfiliate/?tap_a=44784-d2adc0&tap_s=724845-260ce4&program=hushmail-for-small-business), [Soverin](https://soverin.net), [StartMail](https://www.startmail.com), [Posteo](https://posteo.de), [Lavabit](https://lavabit.com). For activists and journalists, see [Disroot](https://disroot.org/en), [Autistici](https://www.autistici.org) and [RiseUp](https://riseup.net/en)
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### Self-Hosted Email
If you do not want to trust an email provider with your messages, you can host your own mail server. Without experience, this can be notoriously hard to correctly configure, especially when it comes to security. You may also find that cost, performance and features make it a less attractive option. If you do decide to go down this route, [Mail-in-a-box](https://mailinabox.email/), is an easy to deploy, open source mail server. It aims to promote decentralization, innovation, and privacy on the web, as well as have automated, auditable, and idempotent system configuration. Other ready-to-go self-hosted mail options include [Mailu](https://mailu.io/1.7/) and [Mail Cow](https://mailcow.email/), both of which are docker containers.
### Mail Clients
## Mail Clients
Email clients are the programs used to interact with the mail server. For hosted email, then the web and mobile clients provided by your email service are usually adequate, and may be the most secure option. For self-hosted email, you will need to install and configure mail clients for web, desktop or mobile. A benefit of using an IMAP client, is that you will always have an offline backup of all email messages (which can then be encrypted and archived), and many applications let you aggregate multiple mailboxes for convenience. Desktop mail clients are not vulnerable to the common browser attacks, that their web app counterparts are.
- **Desktop** - [Mozilla Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net) is an open source, long-standing and secure desktop email client by Mozilla, for Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you are using ProtonMail, then you can use the [ProtonMail Bridge](https://protonmail.com/bridge/thunderbird), to sync your emails to either Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. In terms of security, the disadvantage, is that most desktop clients do not support 2FA, so it is important to keep your computer secured, however they are not vulnerable to the common browser attacks, that a web client would be. See also [eM Client](https://www.emclient.com)m which is a reputable but proprietary paid desktop client for Windows and Mac OS.
- **Web** - If you are self-hosting your mail server, you will probably want a web-based email client. [RainLoop](http://www.rainloop.net) and [RoundCube](https://roundcube.net) are both good open source options.
- **Mobile** - the most secure option is usually to use the app provided by your mail provider. If your mail server is self-hosted, then consider [FairMail](https://email.faircode.eu/) which is a fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android. There is also [pretty Easy privacy p≡p](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=security.pEp), which has OpenPGP built in, and [K-9 Mail](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsck.k9), (which has been around almost as long as Android!), has a solid reputation for privacy and security features.
[TorBirdy](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy) is a Thunderbird addon, that configures it to make connections over the Tor network
It is important to keep the device/ server running your mail client secure.
**See also** [Email Security Checklist](/README.md#emails)
| Provider | Description |
| --- | --- |
**[Mozilla Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net)** (Desktop) | Free and open source email application developed and backed by Mozilla -it's secure, private easy and customizable. The [Enigmail](https://www.enigmail.net) add-on allows for easy encryption/ decryption of PGP messages, and the [TorBirdy](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy) extension routes all traffic through the Tor network.
**[eM Client](https://www.emclient.com/)** (Desktop) | Productivity-based email client, for Windows and MacOS. eM Client has a clean user interface, snappy performance and good compatibility. There is a paid version, with some handy features, including snoozing incoming emails, watching for replies for a specific thread, message translation, send later, and built-in Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and Notes. Note, eM Client is propriety, and not open source
**[RainLoop](http://www.rainloop.net)** (Web) | Simple, modern, fast web-based mail client
**[RoundCube](https://roundcube.net)** (Web) | Browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking
**[FairMail](https://email.faircode.eu/)** (Andoird) | Open source, fully-featured and easy mail client for Android. Supports unlimited accounts and email addresses with the option for a unified inbox. Clean user interface, with a dark mode option, it is also very lightweight and consumes minimal data usage
**[K-9 Mail](https://k9mail.app/)** (Android) | K-9 is open source, very well supported and trusted- k9 has been around for nearly as long as Android itself! It supports multiple accounts, search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, BCC-self, PGP/MIME & more. Install OpenKeychain along side it, in order to encrypt/ decrypt emails using OpenPGP
**[p≡p](https://www.pep.security/)** (Android | iOS) | The Pretty Easy Privacy (p≡p) client is a fully decentralized and end-to-end encrypted mail client, for "automatic privacy". It has some nice features, however it is not open source
#### Word of Warning
One disadvantage of mail clients, is that many of them do not support 2FA, so it is important to keep your device secured and encrypted
## Anonymous Mail Forwarding