Re: [tor-dev] Attentive Otter: Analysis of Instantbird/Thunderbird

Mike Perry:

• Leveraging the work done on TorBirdy, we can distribute Instantbird and Tor (and related components) in a single package, or as a combined addon.
  • Use Tor Launcher as the controller (sukhe recently added Thunderbird support)
    • Will allow seamless zero-configuration Tor usage for normal case, and will share Tor Browser's future Pluggable Transport support with no additional effort.
    • See the TorBirdy manual for more information: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy#TorBirdywithTorandTor...

I'd like to add that we can probably also leverage the work done on using Mozilla's updater in TBB to perform automatic updates of an Instantbird bundle.