Date: 2007nov18 Q. How can I encrypt my email? A. Use GPG or certificates. GPG Install GPG and the Enigmail plugin for Thunderbird http://www.gnupg.org http://enigmail.mozdev.org Certificates http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138696/article.html Seems Hushmail is a bad choice http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/1823225 There's always spammimic http://www.spammimic.com If you are running a mailserver you can add TLS which will encrypt mail between servers. http://adomas.org/2006/08/postfix-dovecot/ By the way, its almost certain that mail is being monitored http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28FBI%29