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kamjam on Aug 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mailpile – taking e-mail back

Erm, isn't that what Thunderbird and Enigmail were doing/already do?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/

What am I missing that Mailpile will do, aside from possibly a better interface and lots of marketing?

toyg on Aug 20, 2013 [–]

A better interface and lots of marketing.

Jk, the main difference is that mailpile wants to be fully web-based, whereas Enigmail is a fat client. I guess they plan on working heavily on key generation and storage (which is typically the sore point in tools like Enigmail).

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