is tor an email mixmaster?

[M. Peterson]

is it possible to make a kind of tor button, so that all users using a kind
of email client are a outproxy or hidden service, or must it be hidden
service?
so a torbutton with default on smtp relay /exitnode for email?

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Karsten N.
<tor-admin at privacyfoundation.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> someone has setup an open SMTP relay as hidden service:
>
>  oogjrxidhkttf6vl.onion    port: 587
>
> May be, it works. I did not test it. :-(
>
> Karsten N.
>
> M. Peterson schrieb:
>  > Hi
> >
> > want to know, if tor is as well an email mixmaster,
> > e.g. we have an email client, which is sending only pgp encrypted emails,
> > then the ISP is excluded as he cannot read, but data retention laws allow
> to
> > log the IP from where the email is sent and the email server knows the
> last
> > exit point of the encrypted package (email).
> > If now in this email client an onion routing system would be enabled,
> then
> > all email (enc. Packages) would be routed, and some exit nodes would
> deliver
> > them.
> > Is this already possible with Tor? Are there enough exit nodes? would it
> be
> > possible and useful for email services to force every node to be an exit
> > node for encry. packets to email accounts? how much bandwidth is a node
> > requiring then for mixing/forwarding emails only?
> > are there developers working on that? or interested?
> >
> > Regards
> >
>
>
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