Re: [tor-talk] how useful is tormail?

[Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/15/2012 11:25 AM, eli wrote:
> I haven't been able to access my tormail account for days.  Does anyone
> know what's going on there?
>
> In view of the recent posts regarding the reliability/privacy of
> tormail.net, and my own ignorance of this stuff, I'm asking: How useful
> is tormail to those using the onion network to circumvent official
> censorship?
>
  Privacy issues aside, Tormail has really terrible uptime for an email
provider.  There are several that have great uptime and work really well
under Tor. I would recommend these above Tormail:

* Lavabit is one that I would recommend, as it is light, has solid
uptime, and doesn't require javascript.
* Vmail.me works well and offers POP/IMAP, though it does require
javascript to create an account or use their webmail. 
* Email.is also works well, though you need another email account to
have the password sent to.
* GeurrillaMail.com works well as a one-time email for account
confirmations and if you just need to send one message.

Zoho comes highly recommended, but in testing I wasn't able to create an
account while using Tor.  And for me at least, Gmail is unusable in the
browser under tor.

  Of course, no email provider provides complete content privacy --
right now only PGP encryption can offer that. 

Best,
Griffin Boyce

-- 
"I believe that usability is a security concern; systems that do 
not pay close attention to the human interaction factors involved 
risk failing to provide security by failing to attract users."
~Len Sassaman

PGP Key etc: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Fontaine 

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