Mozilla Thunderbird leaking ?

Oliver Niesner digi_news at gmx.de
Thu Sep 1 15:20:15 UTC 2005


Frank Helk wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> since Mozilla Thunderbird (the news/rss/email client) supports the use of a proxy, I've tried to duplicate the TOR/PRIVOXY settings there and (curious as I 
> am) I monitored the traffic with Ethereal.
> 
> While Mozilla Firefox seems to work fine with TOR - means:  as far as I can see nothing of my communication is in clear text - Thunderbird seems to leak 
> DNS requests which are bypassig TOR / Privoxy.
> 
> Any confirmation / hint / tip / comment / etc. ?
> 
> -FH
> 
I cannot confirm this, nothing is in cleartext!
see attached screenshot - nothing special just the standard settings!

cu

Olli
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