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Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0



On 12/29/2009 9:46 AM, Erilenz wrote:
> * on the Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:12:10PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
> 
>>> Actually, no.  The default exit policy blocks smtp ports.  Sometimes,
>>> you can find exit nodes that allow smtp.  These are times are typically
>>> few and far between.
>>
>>      I thought that, pursuant to a discussion here last year or the year
>> before, the default exit policy was changed to allow the smtps port.  Did
>> that change not get made after all?
> 
> It did. Port 25 is rejected in the default policy, but 587 and 465 are not
> any longer:

I use 465 on 98-99% of my outgoing mail as a matter of policy even
before I started getting "security conscious", as it were.

> root@esse:~# grep '\*:465' /var/lib/tor/cached-descriptors|wc -l
> 296
<snip>

God I hope you're not using your root account as your normal user account.

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