Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>: > Jacob Appelbaum: >> Ethan Lee Vita: >>> Pop servers (I don't use imap) don't connect while using TorBirdy, nor >>> do SMTP servers. It just sticks at 'Connecting to >>> pop.someserver.org...', not even asking for user password. SMTP comes up >>> with Thunderbird didn't connect to SMTP error. TorBirdy did work until I >>> upgraded from v0.0.4 to v0.0.9 and hasn't worked since (currently on >>> v0.0.10). I've been trying to figure this out for some time, but after >>> playing with Thunderbird settings, searching online, and updating to >>> other versions of TorBirdy (trying again every few days), I've had no >>> success and had to disable TorBirdy. >> >> Are you trying to use pop3 without SSL/TLS? If so, I think this is >> expected behavior - we didn't want anyone to insecurely check >> pop/imap/smtp over Tor unless they *really* know what they're doing. >> > > Despite the fact, that this might not be the reason for the error > shouldn't TorBirdy display some kind of message, when it discards > connections because they are not encrypted? > > "TorBirdy has prevented potentially unwanted information disclosure. > Please use SSL/TLS to encrypt the connection(s)." > > or something else. At least users should know that TorBirdy is the > reason why they can't connect. Maybe even telling why exactly this is > the case. > > If you agree, I could create a ticket. >
I think there is such a message from Thunderbird already - it sounds like the issue (discussed later in the thread) was that Tor simply wasn't running. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
