Sending mail through TOR/Socks

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

On 2006.07.17, at 13:33, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:20:13PM +0200, Marco Gruss wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No, Tor is smarter than that: your Tor client knows the exit policies
> of the Tor servers, and it picks an appropriate exit node.
>
> If I had to pick a reason for your problem, it would be that only 2 of
> the 700 currently running Tor nodes allow port 25 to exit, and these
> are likely on all sorts of SMTP blacklists.

Is it possible your mail service can use port 587? I don't know how  
many exit nodes allow that (nor do I know how to quickly check), but  
I'm using 587 with SMTP over SSL, and it seems to work fine. Check my  
headers if you don't believe me. :-)

/jgt
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