On 12/28/2009 2:35 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On 12/28/2009 01:18 PM, Andrew Lewman wrote: >> I'm going to create a vm and load up tb3 to see what issues arise. It >> may be that much like firefox, the tb socks support is lacking. > > I set this up and tested it. The TB3 correctly used SOCKS > localhost:9050 as socks 5 just fine. It leaked dns, but otherwise the > requests went over Tor. The RSS poller has some weird timeout when a > feed can't be read via Tor. However, TB3 just left the feed stale if it > couldn't be updated when tor circuits took longer than 2-3 minutes to > get the data. That's pretty much what it does for me, leaves the feed stale (and useless). I guess I'll have to get a third-party poller and use it in the open. > As for mail, I could get imaps, pop3s to work over tor just fine. There > were no exit nodes allowing smtp or s-smtp through their exit policies > when I was testing, so sending mail via tor didn't work (as expected). > Again, dns leaked locally. > Hrm. So tor automatically blocks smtp connections by default and there is local leakage of DNS by TB3. Guess it's time to find a new mail client. ):
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