Sending mail through TOR/Socks

Marco Gruss kork at kork.dyndns.org
Mon Jul 17 17:20:13 UTC 2006


Hi,

4non ym0us wrote:
> I'm aware of this and believe that it's a lot easier to convince my
> webhost, if it comes down to it, to not block TOR exit nodes which
> many does not appear to be accepting SMTP anyway, compared to if my
> IPs are being used for massive spammage.
I think this is the main reason why mailing fails so often: Most exit
nodes simply don't allow connecting to port 25. Every time you try
sending a mail and your exit node at that time doesn't allow it, you'll
get the described timeout.

Marco



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