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Thunderbird Configuration¶

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You will first need to complete Device Guides for your client before continuing. Take special note of the Thunderbird-specific instructions there.

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Open Thunderbird and do the following:
1. Select the hamburger menu and click Settings from the resulting drop-down menu.
1. Search for the term config in the search bar and click Config Editor….
Search for security.enterprise_roots.enabled, and click the toggle button to true.

Note

This is not required if you have enabled a system-wide proxy configuration.

Open Thunderbird and do the following:
1. Select the hamburger menu bar and click Settings from the resulting drop-down menu.
1. Search for the term proxy in the search bar and click Settings…:
Choose Automatic proxy configuration URL and paste the appropriate URL:

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This step assumes you saved the proxy.pac file as suggested in the Device Guides. If you saved this file in different location please provide correct the path.
- For Linux: file:///etc/tor/proxy.pac
- For macOS: file:///Library/WebServer/Documents/proxy.pac
- For Windows: file://C:/Program Files/Tor Browser/proxy.pac