On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 08:57:24PM -0500, Alek wrote: > I'm curious- in what way can Tor be used for emailing? When someone is > connected to the Tor network is there email routed along the Tor network > too? Or, does it go through their the normal connection with their ISP?
The only recommended way to use email with Tor is to use web mail, e.g. https connections to gmail. Periodically people ask about using Thunderbird or the like. The problem is that client-side applications that compose and deliver email could leave identifying features in the mail headers they generate, or in the application-level data while interacting with remote mail servers. Nobody has investigated what would be needed to write a Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird. To answer what might be your more immediate question, you may be confused about Tor when you say "when someone is connected to the Tor network". Only applications that have been specifically configured to use Tor will send their traffic over Tor. See point 'a' at https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/