Hi, My question is about the safety of using Thunderbird to send e-mail through Tor.
A little background: I run a moderate capacity (~500-600 kb/s) Tor relay. I've configured my Thunderbird client to use the Tor network, as well as to not leak DNS resolves, and I've verified through test e-mails that they are being sent to the GMail server through a Tor exit node. My accounts are configured to use SSL/TLS for both IMAP and SMTP. I understand that once e-mail leaves the GMail servers, it's about as secure as sending an open post card. My question is whether the SSL/TLS connections between my e-mail client and the GMail server are being made through the Tor network, and whether using Tor in such a way exposes my otherwise unencrypted e-mail to a greater risk of being skimmed by, say, a potentially hostile Tor exit node? My goal is simply to anonymise my IP, which gets leaked gratuitously by Thunderbird, and to ensure that the e-mail gets to the GMail server as securely as if I was using the https web mail. Thanks in advance for any assistance! Cheers, Phillip _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
