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Re: Pidgin with TOR
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 07:10 -0500, Flamsmark wrote:
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>
> 2009/12/31 emigrant <fromwindowstolinux@xxxxxxxxx>
> hi all,
> i am using the pidgin with ubuntu. and i installed TOR as
> well.
> i want to set up TOR to one of the yahoo accounts in pidgin.
> so i went to proxy settings and changed the gnome proxy
> setttings into
> socks5 and host 127.0.0.1 and port 9050.
> but each time i restart pidgin the yahoo account wont' start.
> i think
> its may be due to yahoo email is opened?
>
> how can i solve the problem?
>
> thank you very much.
>
>
> Port 9050 is your web proxy (probably Polipo). Pidgin wants to use a
> Socks proxy, so you should set the port to 8118, which is where Tor
> itself is listening.
hi,
but the doc says its 9050?>>>
https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO/InstantMessaging
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