On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:20:13PM +0200, Marco Gruss wrote:
4non ym0us wrote:
I'm aware of this and believe that it's a lot easier to convince my
webhost, if it comes down to it, to not block TOR exit nodes which
many does not appear to be accepting SMTP anyway, compared to if my
IPs are being used for massive spammage.
I think this is the main reason why mailing fails so often: Most exit
nodes simply don't allow connecting to port 25. Every time you try
sending a mail and your exit node at that time doesn't allow it,
you'll
get the described timeout.
No, Tor is smarter than that: your Tor client knows the exit policies
of the Tor servers, and it picks an appropriate exit node.
If I had to pick a reason for your problem, it would be that only 2 of
the 700 currently running Tor nodes allow port 25 to exit, and these
are likely on all sorts of SMTP blacklists.