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I’ve been working as part of the development team on Mobility Email for quite some time, and release day has finally arrived!

In summary, Mobility Email is a distribution of Mozilla Thunderbird that can be run without installation from a USB Flash Drive, iPod or hard disk for example. It has been authorised for release by the Mozilla Corporation.

Mobility Email allows you to transport your entire email inbox simply on a USB stick, allowing you to plug it into any computer with a USB port and an internet connection, and communicate easily by email.

One of Mobility Email’s key features is that it comes with support for both S/MIME and OpenPGP Signing and Encryption features built-in, allowing users to digitally sign and encrypt their emails wherever they are. It includes a new, cutting-edge CVS version of GnuPG allowing users to utilise the new, more secure DSA2 and SHA224 technologies not yet available in any other standard release email client. Mobility Email truly is a plug-and-go solution, requiring no lengthy set-up procedure. Simply give Mobility Email your email account details, and you are ready to communicate securely using an excellent, portable email solution. Mobility Email removes the single most significant obstacle to the use of encryption: complexity.

It also includes several other advanced security features including the ability to “lock” and “unlock” your mail profile - this encrypts all your emails when you are not using them, meanin that ig you lose your USB Flash Disk for example, your emails are all safely encrypted and therefore can’t be read by anyone who may have found or stolen your disk.
Crucially, Mobility Email is fully compatible with Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5) extensions and themes since it is built on Thunderbird 1.5.x code. It comes with its own theme (that you can disable if you don’t like it) and several of the best extensions pre-installed. These extensions include Enigmail, Contacts Sidebar and Webmail. The Webmail extension allows users of web-based email services (such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Lycos email, Mail.com etc) to access their email from a mail client, meaning that you don’t have to spend hours going from website to website, entering different usernames and passwords - Mobility Email does it all for you, and you don’t have to pay for the webmail companiy’s POP service either! Mobility Email does it for you for free, and it’s even compatible with Gmail accounts. By integrating webmail accounts to Mobility Email, it allows users to use S/MIME or OpenPGP signing and encryption features with their existing accounts - this was previously not possible without specific software and an in-depth knowledge of GnuPG. Mobility Email removes yet another boundary!

Mobility Email is also available with an optional subscription to Mobilityemail.net - this provides users with their own @mobilityemail.net email address, provides a mailbox with at least 250Mb storage, and has full POP / SMTP / IMAP / Webmail access. It also protects you from spam and email viruses.

The Mobilityemail.net service starts at just $24.95 for a year’s service, but it is not necessary to sign up to this to get the Mobility Email software. Mobility Email is Open Source and will always be free.

Full details and free downloads are available at http://www.mobilityemail.net