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Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird and Tor - question/s.
Bobby Brewster:
> I was experimenting using Tor and Thunderbird by entering 127.0.0.1: 9150 in the TB Preferences.
>
> I used my Gmail account and hence Gmail's SMTP server.
>
> I checked the headers of the message I sent to Gmail and the IP was a Tor exit node.
>
> However, I am wondering whether using Tor and an e-mail client is as safe as using webmail when using the TBB.
>
> My point is that I don't know to what extent the message is entirely encrypted.
>
> For example, in a message send by Thunderbird there exists in addition to the message body:
> to
> from
> date/time
> subject
> cc/bcc (perhaps)
>
> To what extent is this so-called metadata also encrypted? This may be a stupid question for which the answer is 'obvious' but I would like to know.
Are you aware of TorBirdy?
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