Hi Leeroy, Wow, that is one detailed explanation!
You have been a great help in the course of my Tor adventures, thanks for all the support! Cheers Sophie l.m: > Hi Sophie, > >> If I would like to suggest to add a warning to the "Before >> using TorBirdy", where would be the right place to do so? > > If you would like to submit the feature request what you would first > do is connect to Tor's bug tracker [0]. From there you can either > register for your own account or use the credentials listed in the > 'Welcome' text on the first page. Select 'New Ticket' and fill in the > ticket. Choose 'enhancement' for type and 'TorBirdy' for the > component. If you wish to reference the discussion here on tor-talk > you can use the links available in the archives [1]. > > [0]https://trac.torproject.org > [1]https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/037455.html > >> Would you define failure to use an exit as a) not being >> able to send emails over this exit and therefore >> establishing a connection to a new exit or as b) when I >> get a warning saying "blocked using mail.badip.de"? >> Because from how I understand this, and please correct >> if I am wrong,TorBirdy might connect to a different exit, >> when the current exit doesn't support the port I am using. > > Tricky. A failure could be both. Tor tries to guess if an exit will > allow your exiting traffic but it's not a guarantee. In which case, > you're correct, a new exit is chosen. Perhaps from existing circuits > or by building a new circuit if needed. This would also occur if the > connection to the mail server is refused. A response 'blocked' is not > be a failure in the usual sense. The connection succeeds in a manner > of speaking but is closed before sending data. Thanks for pointing > that out. > > --leeroy > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
