Tor and Thunderbird / Mail.app

[Holmes Wilson]

I tried restarting Mail.app with Vidalia on and Tor disactivated.   
Mail was still able to access messages.

Is IMAP through SOCKS?  I'm just using Privoxy, and not using a SOCKS  
proxy.  I guess that's the problem?

Is SOCKS a solution?  I saw there was some issue about it having  
identifying header information.

-Holmes


On Apr 13, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote:

> If you are using IMAP and you change your proxy settings, you'll  
> have to tell mail to disconnect and reconnect before it goes trough  
> the proxy, or you can quit an relaunch Mail. Also, which proxy  
> setting are you using? SOCKS?
>
> /jgt
>
> On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:43, Holmes Wilson <hwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That seems to not be true.   Right now Tor is not running, safari  
>> shows the privoxy error page, and mail.app is still able to send  
>> and receive mail from gmail.
>>
>> -Holmes
>>
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:28 PM, phobos at rootme.org wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:02:51PM -0400, hwilson at gmail.com wrote  
>>> 0.4K bytes in 12 lines about:
>>> : I'm looking for a good way to use Tor for accessing email on OS  
>>> X.  It
>>> : seems like Thunderbird is working with the torbutton plugin.   
>>> But I'd
>>> : prefer to use Mail.app.  Is this possible?
>>> :
>>> : Do the proxy settings that torify Safari apply to Mail.app?
>>> : http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-osx.html.en
>>>
>>> If you setup the proxy server in System Preferences, all native- 
>>> Apple
>>> applications should use the settings.
>>>
>>> : What is my checklist to make sure Mail.app isn't leaking IP  
>>> information?
>>>
>>> Send yourself an email and look at the headers for your IP address.
>>> Alternatively, use tcpdump or wireshark to sniff the connection to  
>>> see
>>> what leaks.
>>>
>>> Just remember that unless you are using pop3s or imaps (that is pop3
>>> over ssl or imap over ssl) the exit node can see your username/ 
>>> password
>>> in the clear.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Andrew
>>