On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:20:13PM +0200, Marco Gruss wrote: > 4non ym0us wrote: > >I'm aware of this and believe that it's a lot easier to convince my > >webhost, if it comes down to it, to not block TOR exit nodes which > >many does not appear to be accepting SMTP anyway, compared to if my > >IPs are being used for massive spammage. > I think this is the main reason why mailing fails so often: Most exit > nodes simply don't allow connecting to port 25. Every time you try > sending a mail and your exit node at that time doesn't allow it, you'll > get the described timeout.
No, Tor is smarter than that: your Tor client knows the exit policies of the Tor servers, and it picks an appropriate exit node. If I had to pick a reason for your problem, it would be that only 2 of the 700 currently running Tor nodes allow port 25 to exit, and these are likely on all sorts of SMTP blacklists. --Roger
