On 12/29/2010 12:38 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 08:57:24PM -0500, Alek wrote: >> I'm curious- in what way can Tor be used for emailing? When someone is >> connected to the Tor network is there email routed along the Tor network >> too? Or, does it go through their the normal connection with their ISP? > The only recommended way to use email with Tor is to use web mail, > e.g. https connections to gmail. > > Periodically people ask about using Thunderbird or the like. The problem > is that client-side applications that compose and deliver email could > leave identifying features in the mail headers they generate, or in the > application-level data while interacting with remote mail servers. Nobody > has investigated what would be needed to write a Torbutton equivalent > for Thunderbird. > > To answer what might be your more immediate question, you may be > confused about Tor when you say "when someone is connected to the Tor > network". Only applications that have been specifically configured > to use Tor will send their traffic over Tor. See point 'a' at > https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning > > --Roger > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ Thank you....you answered my question.
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