[tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

Justaguy justaguy at justaguy.pw
Fri Apr 10 12:06:06 UTC 2015


Hello there.
That error message means that your mailserver rejects you, because the
IP address you are connected from, blocks you.
Try to use another exit is my suggested fix.



On 04/10/2015 02:01 PM, Sophie Hassfurther wrote:
> Dear TorBirdies!
>
> I love TorBirdy.
>
> That said, I have an odd problem using TorBirdy with Thunderbird. Since
> yesterday, Thursday 9th, around 9am (that is daylight saving time +1h)
> TorBirdy/Thunderbird shows some strange behaviour. Sometimes it just
> works, but often I keep getting the same alert when trying to send emails:
>
> "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1
> Service unavailable; client (176.108.160.214) blocked using
> mail.badip.de Please check the message recipient xxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx.com
> and try again."
>
> So what I find strange, is that since two days TorBirdy seems to connect
> to the same exit node whenever I login. When I check the Tor Browser
> though, it says I am connected to Tor, showing a different (!) IP address.
>
> I am not a very technical person, so maybe this is all expected
> behavior, but I thought I'll ask. I hope this doesn't make me look like
> an idiot
>
> Below is the Thunderbird troubleshooting info, I have crossed out my in-
> and outgoing server, as well as the (deactivated) plugins.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Sophie
>
>
>
>   Application Basics
>
>     Name: Thunderbird
>     Version: 31.6.0
>     User Agent:
>     Profile Folder: Show in Finder
>     Application Build ID: 20150330093429
>     Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
>     Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
>     Memory Use: about:memory
>
>   Mail and News Accounts
>     account1:
>       INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, SSL, passwordCleartext
>
>     account2:
>       INCOMING: account2, , (imap) xxxxxxxx.domainname.com:993, SSL,
> passwordCleartext
>       OUTGOING: xxxxxxxx.domainname.com:25, alwaysSTARTTLS,
> passwordCleartext, true
>
>   Crash Reports
>
>   Extensions
>     Enigmail, 1.8.1, true, {847b3a00-7ab1-11d4-8f02-006008948af5}
>     TorBirdy, 0.1.4, true, castironthunderbirdclub at torproject.org
>
>   Important Modified Preferences
>
>     Name: Value
>
>       accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
>       browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
>       browser.cache.disk.enable: false
>       browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
>       browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
>       browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
>       browser.cache.memory.enable: false
>       dom.disable_image_src_set: true
>       dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled: false
>       dom.storage.enabled: false
>       extensions.lastAppVersion: 31.6.0
>       font.internaluseonly.changed: true
>       general.useragent.override:
>       gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa: 4
>       gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled: false
>       javascript.enabled: false
>       mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
>       mail.spotlight.firstRunDone: true
>       mailnews.database.global.datastore.id:
> a4fcfcb3-c940-d248-bb65-49c72c5afdb
>       media.ogg.enabled: false
>       media.peerconnection.enabled: false
>       media.wave.enabled: false
>       media.webm.enabled: false
>       network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 2
>       network.cookie.lifetimePolicy: 2
>       network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
>       network.http.pipelining: true
>       network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 12
>       network.http.pipelining.ssl: true
>       network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
>       network.http.sendRefererHeader: 0
>       network.http.spdy.enabled: false
>       network.prefetch-next: false
>       network.protocol-handler.warn-external.file: true
>       network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ftp: true
>       network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http: true
>       network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https: true
>       network.websocket.enabled: false
>       permissions.default.image: 2
>       places.database.lastMaintenance: 1428480697
>       places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 80531
>       plugin.importedState: true
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
>       security.disable_button.openCertManager: false
>       security.disable_button.openDeviceManager: false
>       security.enable_ssl3: false
>       security.enable_tls_session_tickets: false
>       security.OCSP.disable_button.managecrl: false
>       security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation: true
>       security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken: true
>       security.warn_entering_weak: true
>       security.warn_submit_insecure: true
>       webgl.disabled: true
>
>   JavaScript
>
>   Incremental GC: 1
>
>   Accessibility
>
>     Activated: 0
>     Prevent Accessibility: 0
>
>   Library Versions
>
>       Expected minimum version
>       Version in use
>
>       NSPR
>       4.10.6
>       4.10.6
>
>       NSS
>       3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
>       3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
>
>       NSS Util
>       3.16.2.3
>       3.16.2.3
>
>       NSS SSL
>       3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
>       3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
>
>       NSS S/MIME
>       3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
>       3.16.2.3 Basic ECC

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