Re: Tor & Email?

[Orionjur Tor-admin <tor-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> 
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Hello Roger,

As I know sometimes ago there were plans of the Tor developers to make
TB for Thunderbird, am I wrong?
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