Hi,
for some years I have been running a browser (Firefox) through a SSH
tunnel (Putty on Windows).
I recently had reason to believe that my incoming email might be being
blocked because of spam blacklisting of the block of IPs my ISP was
using (dynamic IP addr).
I therefore set up Thunderbird to use a proxy in the same way as FireFox:
Putty SSH connection with a Dynamic tunnel on port 'nmnm' - and
Firefox/Thunderbird set to use a 127.0.0.1:nmnm SOCKSv5 proxy (no other
proxy settings, and no change to email accounts)
This seemed to work OK (well it certainly works for the browser -
confirmed by whatismyip and icanhazip.com) -
then I Googled for 'Thunderbird proxy' and most of the posts suggested
changing email account servers to 127.0.0.1:993 [imap] +
127.0.0.1:465 [smtp] with ports 993/465 individually forwarded in Putty.
I think my method is much neater - if it works -
So:
# how can I check if my method works for email?
# how would you do it?
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