On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:43:10 +0000 Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de> wrote:

Hi,

transparent proxying to TOR Hidden Services is a great feature of the TOR daemon when it comes to other applications/protocols than HTTP and surfing. It would also be great with privacy appliances (e.g. Mailpile using TOR as secure SMTP transport channel).

John Does have problems with such a setup because of the NAT firewall rules.

So I suggest the TOR daemon should automagically set the necessary NAT-rules on Windows, Linux and BSD when "TransPort" and "VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6]" are configured in torrc.

This is unlikely to happen because the "sensible automagic thing" will probably break on various configurations, and more practically, tor attempts to drop privileges as soon as possible leading it to be unable to alter or clean up said rules on HUP/exit. Others are free to disagree, patches will be evaluated if someone writes them. Regards, -- Yawning Angel