Bote
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Traditional email is insecure. It was not designed to protect people from dragnet surveillance.
Even if you encrypt your emails, the email metadata can be monitored to reveal large amounts of information about you.
Bote is a new kind of email that provides complete end-to-end privacy and security.
With traditional email, you need to trust a central server. And if it is blocked, you can\'t send or receive emails.
Bote uses a distributed peer-to-peer network, similar to BitTorrent. Encrypted emails are split up and stored with many other Bote users.
When you send an email in Bote, everything is encrypted - including the email metadata. Only the recipient can download and read the email.
An outsider can only see that an email was sent, not who sent it. And if the recipient never publishes their address, the outsider can\'t even tell who the recipient is.
Because Bote is a little different to traditional email, there are a few things to set up before you can start using it.
The setup wizard will take a couple of minutes, and then everything will be ready.
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Setup
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Set password
You can set a password for Bote. This will prevent other users from reading your emails, and will encrypt all files on-disk.
If you set a password, automatic email checking will be disabled. You can manually check for emails once you have authenticated by pulling down on the Inbox.
If you do not set a password now, you can do so later from the Settings menu.
Create identity
To receive emails, you need an Identity. This is a set of cryptographic keys that enables you to encrypt and decrypt emails.
A Destination is the public part of an Identity. This is the address that you will give to your contacts so they can send emails to you. When you send emails using an Identity, its Destination is included in the From field so the recipient can reply.
If you do not create an Identity now, you can do so later from the Settings menu. If you only want to send emails, you do not need an Identity, because Bote emails can be sent anonymously. However the recipient will be unable to reply to you.
Setup finished
Bote is configured and ready to use.
To send and receive emails, Bote needs to connect to the distributed network. You can do this from the menu.
While Bote is offline, you can read emails that have already been downloaded. You can also write emails and put them in the Outbox; they will be sent the next time Bote is online.
Go to inbox
New email
Send email
Connect to network
Disconnect from network
Settings
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%s selected
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Inbox
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- One new email
- %d new emails
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Sending
Sent %1$d of %2$d
Sent to %1$d out of %2$d recipients
Email sent
Gateway disabled
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Invalid recipient address: %s
Error creating email packets: %s
Error while sending email: %s
Error saving email metadata: %s
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Compose
Subject
Compose email
Add at least one recipient.
Email queued for sending
Re:
Re:
%s wrote:
%s wrote:
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New contact
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Contact name
Email destination
Browse
Select file containing Email Destination
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Failed to read Email Destination file.
Could not find Email Destination file.
Save contact
Delete contact?
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Bote is waiting for the I2P router to start up and be ready.
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General
General settings and default identity settings
Auto-check mail
Check interval
%s minutes
Delivery status
Check delivery status of sent emails
Privacy
Hide locale
Use English for text added to outgoing emails (\'Re:\', \'wrote:\', etc.)
Sent time
Include sent time in outgoing emails
Routing
Relays
Use %s relays when sending mail
Minimum delay per hop
%s minutes
Maximum delay per hop
%s minutes
Router settings
Auto
Manual
Router
Internal
Remote I2P router
Router to use
I2CP host
I2CP port
Change password
Old password
New password
Confirm new password
Password changed successfully
Identities
New identity…
Edit identity
Public name
Description
Default identity
Save identity
Delete identity?
Identity saved
Export identities
Password is empty
Passwords do not match
File exists
Exporting identities
Identities exported to Downloads folder
Import identities
Importing identities
No identities were found.
No identities were found. Is the file encrypted?
Identities imported