[tor-talk] Thunderbird, GMail and Tor - is it safe?

2011-08-09 Thread Phillip
Hi, My question is about the safety of using Thunderbird to send e-mail through Tor. A little background: I run a moderate capacity (~500-600 kb/s) Tor relay. I've configured my Thunderbird client to use the Tor network, as well as to not leak DNS resolves, and I've verified through test e-mails

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird, GMail and Tor - is it safe?

2011-08-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 8/9/2011 10:03 AM, Phillip wrote: Hi, My question is about the safety of using Thunderbird to send e-mail through Tor. A little background: I run a moderate capacity (~500-600 kb/s) Tor relay. I've configured my Thunderbird client to use the Tor network, as well as to not leak DNS resolves,

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird, GMail and Tor - is it safe?

2011-08-09 Thread cmeclax-sazri
On Tuesday 09 August 2011 11:03:55 Phillip wrote: My question is whether the SSL/TLS connections between my e-mail client and the GMail server are being made through the Tor network, and whether using Tor in such a way exposes my otherwise unencrypted e-mail to a greater risk of being skimmed

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird, GMail and Tor - is it safe?

2011-08-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 8/9/2011 11:49 AM, cmeclax-sazri wrote: On Tuesday 09 August 2011 11:03:55 Phillip wrote: My question is whether the SSL/TLS connections between my e-mail client and the GMail server are being made through the Tor network, and whether using Tor in such a way exposes my otherwise unencrypted

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird, GMail and Tor - is it safe?

2011-08-09 Thread Phillip
@Joe Thanks a lot for the info! I do use Enigmail quite often, but the problem is the usual, a relatively small proportion of my contacts (read friends and family) care about privacy and encryption... what can I say, it's a work in progress! It's reassuring to know that the SSL is working

Re: [tor-talk] Thunderbird, GMail and Tor - is it safe?

2011-08-09 Thread Gozu-san
On 09/08/11 16:49, cmeclax-sazri wrote: I have a Gmail account that I created through the web using Tor; it was immediately flagged as suspect as soon as I finished. How do you use Thunderbird with Gmail? Although gazeta.pl is a Google remarketer, it AFAIK does (or did, anyway) allow creating