Thunderbird I2P Auto Configuration

NOTE: Untested on Windows

Automatic configuration of Mozilla Thunderbird for Postman’s mail services. These services are configured by default on all current I2P routers, but using them with an email client has an additional barrier to configuration that other mail services do not have. Most email clients are aware of email services and provide some auto-configuration which is detected by domain name. They achieve this by maintaining a directory of XML files that describe those serviceslink. This page presents those same XML files but for Postman’s I2P servics.

Using the Files from Disk:

This is the easiest and least disruptive way to install the Thunderbird ISP file, and the default if it is determined to be possible. The i2pmail-OSTYPE-OSARCH executable, or the i2pmail-OSTYPE-OSARCH.su3 plugin will ask for privileges once, and install the .xml file to the default location for Thunderbird for your architecture. If you just want to use this repository and the Makefile, then:

git clone https://github.com/eyedeekay/Thunderbird-I2P-Auto-Configuration
cd Thunderbird-I2P-Auto-Configuration
sudo make install

Plugin Links

• Mac OSX Intel
• Mac OSX M1
• FreeBSD amd64
• Linux 386
• Linux amd64
• Linux arm64
• OpenBSD amd64
• Windows 386
• Windows amd64

Using the Files from Server:

Is not entirely straightforward yet either. You will need to have:

1. An entry in your hosts file(/etc/hosts) for i2pmail.org which points at 127.0.0.1 or localhost.
2. A web server listening for requests on i2pmail.org which is serving the xml file under a URL Thunderbird recognizes(mail/config-v1.1.xml).

In order to do that on Linux, you can:

echo 127.0.0.1  i2pmail.org | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

and then configure a server of your choice to listen as i2pmail.org. For the sake of making things easy, TODO: plugin

XML Files

mail.i2p.xml

	
		mail.i2p
		Postman's I2P Mail
		Postman's I2P Mail
		
			127.0.0.1
			7660
			plain
			password-cleartext
			%EMAILADDRESS%
		
		
			127.0.0.1
			7659
			plain
			password-cleartext
			%EMAILADDRESS%
		
	

i2pmail.org.xml

	
		i2pmail.org
		Postman's I2P Mail
		Postman's I2P Mail
		
			127.0.0.1
			7660
			plain
			password-cleartext
			%EMAILADDRESS%
		
		
			127.0.0.1
			7659
			plain
			password-cleartext
			%EMAILADDRESS%