Tor and Thunderbird: Outgoing Email Unsafe?

Ringo Kamens 2600denver at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 08:18:55 UTC 2007


I think there are some tormail services, but another one would
certainly be appreciated. If you have a webmail login, please NO
JAVASCRIPT/JAVA/FLASH/ACTIVEX/etc. Perhaps you could also offer
forwarding for people who just want to use your service as a gateway.
That way, you could save space on their accounts.

On 1/2/07, Job <Job2 at home.nl> wrote:
> Dont know but it totally would I guess.
> Do you think you have the capacity for it?
> You have to be careful though as tehre are always ppl out there abusing
> a service like that... but i assume youhave a way to fight that...
>
>
> Nils Vogels schreef:
> > On 1/2/07, Job <Job2 at home.nl> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I just got Tor to be safer online and used the Tor-button to
> >> automatically confugure Firefox and Thunderbird for Tor.
> >> In Thunderbird however I have to exclude the server I use to SEND emails
> >> from being handled by Tor.
> >
> > To overcome just this problem, I'm thinking about setting up an e-mail
> > service from WITHIN Tor as a set of hidden services. Basically, it
> > would be a webmail/pop3/imap/smtp service, that only accepts new
> > account requests from within tor and has a limit on the amount of
> > e-mails that could be sent per account per interval.
> >
> > Does anyone know if this already exists, and if not, would it be a
> > welcome addition Tor?
> >
> > Gr,
> >
> > Nils
> >
>



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