Best multi-identity anonymity-focused email client (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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

this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025

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