Re: Mozilla Thunderbird leaking ?

["Frank Helk" <frank.helk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

>I use Thunderbird only for fetching and sending mail and for this it
>seems to work.
>As you correctly found out the problem is the nttp server on port 119.
>As a workaround i would suggest to use tor-resolve to get the ip for
>your news service and put this ip directly into thunderbird or use a
>different application for reading news.

Yes,  giving thunderbird the IP would circumvent that problem, because 
there's no DNS entry to resolve.

I think there's a need to mention that on the TOR web site, isn't it ?

In the meanwhile I've filed a bug report on bugzilla ....

Regards

	-FH