is tor an email mixmaster?

[M. Peterson]

So that design would work:
http://smallsister.org/show_image.php?id=5


On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:54 PM, <dr._no at cool.ms> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> yes, i started my TOR exit node with port 25 open (default is close)
> and half a year later my provide sent me a letter that my PC is
> sending many spam mails permanent and that i should check my PC
> for malware.
> Because i could not find an email relay i could forward the mails to,
> i closed port 25.
>
> So TOR is in use as an email mixmaster.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rolf
>
> >
> > 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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