Tor and Thunderbird: Outgoing Email Unsafe?

[Michael Holstein]

Here's another idea ... gmail allows SMTP via SSL (smtps on tcp/465).

You've got to authenticate for in/out (meaning google account) but you 
can get one of those anonymously. They do POP via SSL as well (pop3s on 
tcp/995). Combine the two and you've got a functional client.

This should help you out .. (applies to Outlook, but Thunderbird would 
use same settings in different places) :

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13278&query=smtp&topic=&type=f&ctx=search

Cheers,

~Mike.

Job wrote:
> Tanks Mike for your fast and helpful replies
> 
> I am not that worried about traces of activities left on my computer. I 
> just want to be sure receivers of email wont be able t see my IP and stuff.
> So if i use a web based email and use firefox with Tor to access it with 
> my normal settings(the settings that I always use when i use the 
> Internet) so not a totally separate profile.The receiver still wont be 
> able to trace me right? I understand that for complete security I should 
> make a new browser profile so the cookies wont mix. but as cookies are 
> on my own computer they have nothing to do with any info the receiver of 
> email might be able to get from the header or whatever of the email i 
> sent, am i correct?
> 
> Some web based email services,like mail.com if i am not mistaken, give 
> you the option to download a little prog that warns you when a new 
> emailis in.
> Does this affect my anonymity? I suppose it does as the server from 
> mail.com will connect to my comp to tell me there is a new message. On 
> the other hand, if I use tor enabled firefox wouldn't that connection 
> also be anonymous?
> 
> last question: Why cant I access the account without Tor?(safety wise i 
> mean). As long as i dont send any emails to anyone isnt it safe? I 
> understand my ISP and mail.com will be able to trace me but not 
> receivers of emails as I am not sending any at that moment.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Holstein schreef:
>>> ps: am i correct that if i use a webbased email account(for example 
>>> gmail) without pop3 and I use (Torified)Firefox to acces it I CAN 
>>> send emails out without the receiver being able to see my personal IP 
>>> etc?
>>> I dont mind of they se my email address ofcourse as they need that to 
>>> reply to me, just dont want them to be able to view my info.
>>
>> Yes. TOR and (yahoo|hotmail|gmail|$whatever) is an anonymous way to go 
>> about it. Just make sure you use a totally separate browser profile 
>> (eg: start firefox with -ProfileManager) as to not cross-contaminate 
>> cookies, etc. and do everything regarding that email account -- 
>> including signup -- using TOR, and never access it outside of TOR, nor 
>> access anything else with that browser profile.
>>
>> ~Mike.
>>
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