GUI clients
Not everyone lives at a terminal. Alongside the sithbit CLI, SithBit ships
four graphical clients — the Thunderbird extension, the
Outlook add-in, the webmail app, and the
Chrome extension — as the non-CLI ways to use your account. Each
one wraps the same account-management surface in a different host, so which one
you reach for is a matter of where you already read your mail, not what you can
do.
They are not four separate apps that happen to look alike: all four run the
same shared core (webclients/shared/), so a pane behaves identically
wherever you meet it. Everything that must be signed is signed client-side
by a WebAssembly module compiled from this workspace’s own crates — the server
only relays already-signed transactions and never holds your key.
Because they share that core, they also share the same first-run experience: every one walks a brand-new user through the identical five-step browser onboarding wizard — create or import a wallet, then claim a mailbox (and, optionally, a handle) on-chain in one pass. Once you are set up, the same wizard is reachable again from each client’s dashboard to onboard a second wallet.
Pick the client that fits your setup:
- Thunderbird extension — for the Thunderbird desktop mail client.
- Outlook add-in — for Microsoft Outlook.
- webmail app — a standalone browser app, nothing to install.
- Chrome extension — an installable browser-toolbar popup for account onboarding and wallet management.
The three extension pages each open with an Installing from the store section (Thunderbird, Chrome, Outlook) alongside the build-and-sideload path — note the store listings are placeholders until the extensions are published.
Reading and sending mail itself is otherwise unchanged across all four: it flows over ordinary IMAP/POP/SMTP, exactly as it does for the CLI. The one exception is the biggest reason to pick a plugin over a generic mail app: the Thunderbird extension and Outlook add-in also carry Lockbox, automatic end-to-end encryption that seals a message on your device before it ever reaches a server — including your own mail operator’s. Everything else these clients do is the account-management and onboarding surface, not a replacement for your mail app.