Install Thunderbird and Enigmail. How you do this just depends upon your distro and software manager or "app store".

Open Thinderbird

Select "Skip this and use existing email"

Enter your name, email address (myusername@mydomainname.com) and the password for your user.

You'll get a message saying "Thunderbird failed to find the settings"

The settings should be as follows, substituting mydomainname.com for your domain name and myusername for the username.

• Incoming: IMAP, mydomainname.com, 993, SSL/TLS, Normal Password
• Outgoing: SMTP, mydomainname.com, 465, SSL/TLS, Normal Password
• Username: myusername

Click Done.

Click Get Certificate and make sure "permanently store this exception" is selected", then click Store Security Exception.

From OpenPGP setup select "Yes, I would like the wizard to get me started". If the wizard doesn't start automatically then "setup wizard" can be selected from OpenPGP on the menu bar.

Select "Yes, I want to sign all of my email"

Select "No, I will create per-recipient rules"

Select "yes" to change default settings.

On the Freedombone export your GPG public and private keys.

ssh username@domainname -p 2222
gpg --list-keys username@domainname
gpg --output ~/public_key.gpg --armor --export KEY_ID
gpg --output ~/private_key.gpg --armor --export-secret-key KEY_ID

On your laptop or desktop you can import the keys with:

scp -P 2222 username@domain:/home/username/*.gpg ~/

Select "I have existing public and private keys".

Select your public and private GPG exported key files.

Select the account which you want to use and click Next, Next and Finish.

Remove your exported key files, both on your laptop/desktop and also on the Freedombone.

shred -zu ~/public_key.gpg
shred -zu ~/private_key.gpg

Click on the Thunderbird menu, which looks like three horizontal bars on the right hand side.

Hover over preferences and then Account settings.

Select OpenPGP Security and make sure that use PGP/MIME by default is ticked. This will enable you to sign/encrypt attachments, HTML bodies and UTF-8 without any problems.

Select Synchronization & Storage.

Make sure that Keep messages for this account on this computer is unticked, then click Ok.

Click on Inbox. Depending upon how much email you have it may take a while to import the subject lines.

Note that when sending an email for the first time you will also need to accept the SSL certificate.

Get into the habit of using email encryption and encourage others to do so. Remember that you may not think that your emails are very interesting but the Surveillance State is highly interested in them and will be actively trying to data mine your private life looking for "suspicious" patterns, regardless of whether you are guilty of any crime or not.

By default you won't be able to see any folders which you may have created earlier using the mailinglistrule script. To make folders visible select:

Menu, hover over Preferences, select Account Settings, select Server Settings then click on the Advanced button.

Make sure that "show only subscribed folders" is not checked. Then click the ok buttons. Folders will be re-scanned, which may take some time depending upon how much email you have, but your folders will then appear.

Before trying to set up email on Android you may want to consider whether you really need to do this. Android (and its variants) is not a particularly secure operating system and whether or not you wish to store GPG keys on it depends on your threat model and in what situations you'll be using your device.

If you are going to use email on an Android device then ensure that you have full encryption enabled via the security settings, so that if you subsequently lose it, or if it gets stolen, the chances of encryption keys being exposed are minimised.

To get K9 working with Freedombone you'll need to install development versions of OpenKeychain and K9. At the time of writing the versions available in F-Droid do not support PGP/MIME or the "hidden recipient" feature of GPG. It is hoped that at some stage the patches will be integrated into the mainline or functionally equivalent changes made. Admittedly, this is not at all user friendly, but currently it's the only way to read Freedombone email on Android systems.

Build script for OpenKeychain:

mkdir ~/develop
cd ~/develop
git clone https://github.com/bashrc/open-keychain
cd open-keychain
git checkout origin/bashrc/hidden-recipient-minimal
git checkout -b bashrc/hidden-recipient-minimal
cd tools
nano build.sh

Then add the following:

#!/bin/bash

# This script is intended to be used on Debian systems for building
# the project. It has been tested with Debian 8

USERNAME=$USER
SIGNING_NAME='openkeychain'
SDK_VERSION='r23.3.4'
SDK_DIR=$HOME/android-sdk

cd ..

PROJECT_HOME=$(pwd)

sudo apt-get install build-essential default-jdk \
     lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 lib32z1-dev

if [ ! -d $SDK_DIR ]; then
    mkdir -p $SDK_DIR
fi
cd $SDK_DIR

# download the SDK
if [[ ! -f $SDK_DIR/android-sdk_$SDK_VERSION-linux.tgz ]]; then
    wget https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_$SDK_VERSION-linux.tgz
fi
tar -xzvf android-sdk_$SDK_VERSION-linux.tgz
SDK_DIR=$SDK_DIR/android-sdk-linux

echo 'Check that you have the SDK tools installed for Android 22, SDK 21.1.2'

export ANDROID_HOME=$SDK_DIR
echo "sdk.dir=$SDK_DIR" > $ANDROID_HOME/local.properties
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

cd $SDK_DIR/tools
./android sdk

if [ ! -f $SDK_DIR/tools/android ]; then
    echo "$SDK_DIR/tools/android not found"
    exit -1
fi
cd $SDK_DIR
chmod -R 0755 $SDK_DIR
chmod a+rx $SDK_DIR/tools

# android sdk
cd $PROJECT_HOME
git submodule init && git submodule update

if [ ! -f $SDK_DIR/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew ]; then
    echo "$SDK_DIR/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew not found"
    exit -2
fi
. $PROJECT_HOME/gradlew assembleDebug

# cleaning up
cd $PROJECT_HOME/OpenKeychain/build/outputs/apk
if [ ! -f OpenKeychain-debug.apk ]; then
    echo 'OpenKeychain-debug.apk was not found'
    exit -3
fi

echo 'Build script ended successfully'
echo -n 'apk is available at: '
echo "$PROJECT_HOME/OpenKeychain/build/outputs/apk/OpenKeychain-debug.apk"
exit 0

Save and exit with CTRL-o, CTRL-x.

chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh

Build script for K9:

cd ~/develop
git clone https://github.com/k9mail/k-9
cd k-9
cd tools
nano build.sh

Then add the following:

#!/bin/bash

# This script is intended to be used on Debian systems for building
# the project. It has been tested with Debian 8

USERNAME=$USER
SIGNING_NAME='k-9'
SDK_VERSION='r24.3.3'
SDK_DIR=$HOME/android-sdk

cd ..

PROJECT_HOME=$(pwd)

sudo apt-get install build-essential default-jdk \
     lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 lib32z1-dev

if [ ! -d $SDK_DIR ]; then
    mkdir -p $SDK_DIR
fi
cd $SDK_DIR

# download the SDK
if [ ! -f $SDK_DIR/android-sdk_$SDK_VERSION-linux.tgz ]; then
    wget https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_$SDK_VERSION-linux.tgz
    tar -xzvf android-sdk_$SDK_VERSION-linux.tgz
fi
SDK_DIR=$SDK_DIR/android-sdk-linux

echo 'Check that you have the SDK tools installed for Android 17, SDK 19.1'
if [ ! -f $SDK_DIR/tools/android ]; then
    echo "$SDK_DIR/tools/android not found"
    exit -1
fi
cd $SDK_DIR
chmod -R 0755 $SDK_DIR
chmod a+rx $SDK_DIR/tools

ANDROID_HOME=$SDK_DIR
echo "sdk.dir=$SDK_DIR" > $ANDROID_HOME/local.properties
PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

android sdk
cd $PROJECT_HOME

if [ ! -f $SDK_DIR/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew ]; then
    echo "$SDK_DIR/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew not found"
    exit -2
fi
. $PROJECT_HOME/gradlew assembleDebug

# cleaning up
cd $PROJECT_HOME/k9mail/build/outputs/apk
if [ ! -f k9mail-debug.apk ]; then
    echo 'k9mail-debug.apk was not found'
    exit -3
fi
echo 'Build script ended successfully'
echo -n 'apk is available at: '
echo "$PROJECT_HOME/k9mail/build/outputs/apk/k9mail-debug.apk"
exit 0

Save and exit with CTRL-o, CTRL-x.

chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh

With your device connected to a laptop via USB cable and with USB debugging enabled on it:

ssh username@domainname -p 2222
gpg --list-keys username@domainname
gpg --output ~/public_key.gpg --armor --export KEY_ID
gpg --output ~/private_key.gpg --armor --export-secret-key KEY_ID
cat ~/public_key.gpg ~/private_key.gpg > ~/mygpgkey.asc
exit
scp -P 2222 username@domainname:/home/username/mygpgkey.asc ~/
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
push ~/mygpgkey.asc /sdcard/
shred -zu ~/mygpgkey.asc

Then on your device select OpenKeychain and import your key from file.

• Select settings/account settings
• Select Fetching mail/incoming server
• Enter your username and password
• IMAP server should be your domain name
• Security: SSL/TLS (always)
• Authentication: Plain
• Port: 993

• Select settings/account settings
• Select Sending mail/outgoing server
• Set SMTP server to your domain name
• Set Security to SSL/TLS (always)
• Set port to 465
• Set authentication to PLAIN
• Enter your username and password
• Accept the SSL certificate

Select settings, Account settings, OpenKeychain and then select your key and press Allow. You should now be able to decrypt emails by entering your GPG passphrase.

You may also want to change the amount of time for which passwords are remembered, so that you don't need to enter your passphrase very often.

To view any new folders which you may have created using the mailinglistrule script from your inbox press the K9 icon at the top left to access folders, then press the menu button and select refresh folder list.

If your folder still doesn't show up then press the menu button, select show folders and select all folders.

If you are using the irssi IRC client then you can use the following commands to connect to your IRC server.

/server add -auto -ssl yourdomainname 6697
/connect yourdomainname
/join freedombone

If you are using the XChat client:

Within the network list click, Add and enter your domain name then click Edit.

Select the entry within the servers box, then enter mydomainname/6697 and press Enter.

Uncheck use global user information.

Enter first and second nicknames and check auto connect to this network on startup.

Check use SSL and accept invalid SSL certificate.

Enter #freedombone as the channel name.

Click close and then connect.

To add a user:

ssh username@domainname -p 2222
su
freedombone-addxmpp -e newusername@newdomainname
exit
exit

To change a user password:

ssh username@domainname -p 2222
su
freedombone-xmpp-pass -e username@domainname
exit
exit

To remove a user:

ssh username@domainname -p 2222
su
freedombone-rmxmpp -e username@domainname
exit
exit

Report the status of the XMPP server:

ssh username@domainname -p 2222
su
prosodyctl status
exit
exit

Jitsi is the recommended communications client for desktop or laptop systems, since it includes the off the record (OTR) feature which provides some additional security beyond the usual SSL certificates.

Jitsi can be downloaded from https://jitsi.org/

On your desktop/laptop open Jitsi and select Options from the Tools menu.

Click Add to add a new user, then enter the Jabber ID which you previously specified with prosodyctl when setting up the XMPP server. Close and then you should notice that your status is "Online" (or if not then you should be able to set it to online).

From the File menu you can add contacts, then select the chat icon to begin a chat. Click on the lock icon on the right hand side and this will initiate an authentication procedure in which you can specify a question and answer to verify the identity of the person you're communicating with. Once authentication is complete then you'll be chating using OTR, which provides an additional layer of security.

When opening Jitsi initially you will get a certificate warning for your domain name (assuming that you're using a self-signed certificate). If this happens then select View Certificate and enable the checkbox to trust the certificate, then select Continue Anyway. Once you've done this then the certificate warning will not appear again unless you reinstall Jitsi or use a different computer.

You can also see this video as an example of using OTR.

The default XMPP client in Ubuntu is Empathy. Using Empathy isn't as secure as using Jitsi, since it doesn't include the off the record feature, but since it's the default it's what many users will have easy access to.

Open System Settings and select Online Accounts, Add account and then Jabber.

Enter your username (username@domainname) and password.

Click on Advanced and make sure that Encryption required and Ignore SSL certificate errors are checked. Ignoring the certificate errors will allow you to use the self-signed certificate created earlier. Then click Done and set your Jabber account and Empathy to On.

Tor Messenger is a messaging client which supports XMPP, and its onion routing enables you to protect the metadata of chat interactions to some extent by making it difficult for an adversary to know which server is talking to which. You can download Tor Messenger from torproject.org and the setup is pretty simple.

Install F-Droid

Search for and install Xabber.

Add an account and enter your Jabber/XMPP ID and password.

From the menu select Settings then Security then OTR mode. Set the mode to Required.

Make sure that Check server certificate is not checked.

Go back to the initial screen and then using the menu you can add contacts and begin chatting. Both parties will need to go through the off-the-record question and answer verification before the chat can begin, but that only needs to be done once for each person you're chatting with.

To connect to your node use the command:

/connect [yourdomainname] 33445 [your tox node ID]

Within the software center search for "mumble" and install the client then run it. Skip through the audio setup wizard.

Click on "add new" to add a new server and enter the default domain name for the Freedombone, your username (which can be anything) and the VoIP server password which can be found in the README file on the Freedombone. Accept the self-signed SSL certificate. You are now ready to chat.

Note: if you don't know the default domain name and you did a full installation then it will be the same as the wiki domain name.

Install F-Droid

Search for and install Plumble.

Press the plus button to add a Mumble server.

Enter a label (which can be any name you choose for the server), the default domain name of the Freedombone, your username (which can also be anything) and the VoIP server password which can be found in the README file on the Freedombone.

Selecting the server by pressing on it then connects you to the server so that you can chat with other connected users.

Note: if you don't know the default domain name and you did a full installation then it will be the same as the wiki domain name.