On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 09:44 -0800, Bobby Brewster wrote: > -------------------------------------------- > On Tue, 1/7/14, dhanlin <mlgac...@yandex.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird and Tor - question/s. > To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 3:02 PM > > Bobby Brewster: > > I was experimenting using Tor and Thunderbird by > entering 127.0.0.1: 9150 in the TB Preferences. > > > > I used my Gmail account and hence Gmail's SMTP server. > > > > I checked the headers of the message I sent to Gmail > and the IP was a Tor exit node. > > > > However, I am wondering whether using Tor and an e-mail > client is as safe as using webmail when using the TBB. > > > > My point is that I don't know to what extent the > message is entirely encrypted. > > > > For example, in a message send by Thunderbird there > exists in addition to the message body: > > to > > from > > date/time > > subject > > cc/bcc (perhaps) > > > > To what extent is this so-called metadata also > encrypted? This may be a stupid question for which the > answer is 'obvious' but I would like to know. > > >>Are you aware of TorBirdy? > > Yes. I had looked at it before. I was interested in knowing the answers to > the above question if one 'manually' configures TB and Tor as I mentioned > above. > > Also, if one wants to send HTML enabled e-mail then you cannot do that with > TorBirdy. > > So, hence, I would still like to know the answers to my original questions. > Thanks.
If you really want that you need to take advice more seriously. Mail headers remain unencrypted after mail is sent regardless of client mail software / webmail interface. Those things are completely unrelated and also a little outside Tor's scope. -- 010 001 111
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