Using Tor with Thunderbird: problem with Gmail SMTP server

Taka Khumbartha scarreigns at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 20:36:05 UTC 2006


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Artem Litvinov @ 2006/12/25 21:19:
> Ringo Kamens wrote:
>> Just set thunderbird under preferences not to use tor. The problem
>> with this is that you won't be anonymizing your email. Have you
>> thought about using the web client? There are no problems with sending
>> mail there.
> 
> Well, it is an option. Thanks.
> But still I would like to hear how to do it normal way, using  mail
> client (Thunderbird in my case).
> 

i use thunderbird with tor to send gmail email just fine.  see?  use SSL smtp.gmail.com port 465.  you may have to re-try with a new circuit, but it works eventually.
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