Sigh....... yes; especially when one (upon rare occasion) requests the embedded http images, and thereby asks TBird to visit a web page. One would then want the transaction monitored by both TorButton and NoScript. :-(
(p.s. open up about:config in TB and scan for "jav". I hope there really is no js.....) Flamsmark wrote: > This is potentially a less-than-ideal solution. Torbutton for Friefox > is carefully and specifically designed to address web-browsing > privacy concerns, making the user seem to belong to the largest > possible set of potential users. Simply sending Thunderbird traffic > through Tor may not provide the desired level of anonymity. There are > other privacy concerns with Thunderbird, for instance, it sometimes > broadcasts its hostname. Moreover, there hasn't been an anonymity > audit of Thunderbird like there has with Firefox. There may be other > behaviours like this which completely compromise the anonymity > benefits provided by Tor. > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 14:33, Karsten N. > <tor-ad...@privacyfoundation.de>wrote: > >> James Brown schrieb: >>> How can I get the Torbutton for the Mozilla Thunderbird? >> I use ProxyButton for this job. I does a proxy switch to Tor and >> rewrite my IP address in the header of the mail. >> >> Received: from [85.245.13.68] (helo=[0.0.0.0]) by n...@domain.tld >> >> download http://proxybutton.mozdev.org/installation.html >> >> Karsten N. >> >
