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.
This sounds like a job for email aliasing.
I should clarify that I already have multiple email accounts, so extra aliasing is not necessary. I’m looking for an email client application I can run on my desktop which separates the accounts well enough from the email provider.
How many is “multiple”? You asked for “anonymity focus”. Having 3 different accounts doesn’t solve that.
Right now I have 663 aliases. Everyone who asks me for an email address gets an alias.
Not trying to argue with you, and I’m sorry I don’t have an answer for you, I just think this will better fit your needs.
The difference is that the alias provider or destination email provider can associate all your accounts with your identity. I do not want to give this ability to either the alias provider or the email provider. It is a different threat model. (Please correct if I am wrong)
I did not say how many different accounts I have, but you can assume my separation of accounts is sufficient for my needs.
User data in SimpleLogin is encrypted and deleted after 7 days. It’s also self-hostable. Just saying.