Thunderbird & Gmail

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On 07/10/08 09:14, Gerardo Rodríguez wrote:
> Can any body point me in the right direction for installing tor with a
> gmail account in thunderbird? I think I installed right with a regular
> pop account - and this is the other question - but I don´t find a way to
> confirm this (like the browser in http://check.torproject.org/).

One way to confirm that SMTP goes through the Tor network is to simply
send an email to yourself and look at the mail header. Look for sections
like "Received" (the last one) and "X-Original-IP" and make sure that:

1) your real IP address does not appear in them.
2) your SMTP received the email from an IP address/hostname that's a
exit node.

For POP it's more difficult. Try refreshing your inbox and look if a
connection appears in Vidalia. But really, a packet sniffer is the only
way to be sure (and the same goes with SMTP, really).

> I used 3proxy with the instructions in 
> https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO/EMail;
>  now I wonder if tor works at all with gmail. And, may be there is a 
> work around that I´m not aware, but the torbutton does not work for 
> thunderbird, even the developer says so 
> (https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/faq.html.en). Any help will be
>  appreciated.

The old 1.0.4.x release still works with Thunderbird, and with it
there's no need for 3proxy -- just install the old Torbutton branch in
Thunderbird and configure it if needed and you're set.

Torbutton is essential for Thunderbird when used in combination with
Tor. Without it you will send your real IP address/hostname to the SMTP
server when sending email. Of course, if you're behind a NAT, that's not
a big concern, but I'd still recommend it. For further reading, see:
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Aug-2008/msg00261.html

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