On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 06:58:50 PM Terry Gilsenan wrote:
> Firstly, Is the mail client socks aware? If it is not then that is the issue
> you need to fix. If it is, then tell it to use the socks proxy on port 9110
>
> Shorewall is an IPTables configurator, it is NOT a proxy. Shorewall isn't a
> magic bit of software that knows how to interface to a socks proxy.
>
> You need a socks aware email client.
Unfortunately it's KMail, which is not SOCKS-aware. But KMail lets me put my
mail where I want and in a form that I want (mbox) and has several features
that I want. I tried to like Thunderbird, Evolution, Sylpheed, Claws, etc, but
each is either too primitive or, lacks some vital feature. I am not happy with
KMail, but it's the only one I've found that does the vitals. Trust me, I wish
there were something better. I keep looking.
When I use torsocks (or usewithtor or UWT) with KMail, KMail ignores the
redirect. It simply still sends on 465. How do I know? Because I block 465
and get a firewall violation. I IRCed the dev for torsocks and he says it was
developed a long time ago and doesn't work with many GUI applications. He's
the one who suggested that I do this with iptables, and he knows his stuff,
Haters notwithstanding.
I use POP3s and sSMTP (995 & 465) for email. I do not know what it takes to
put this through a SOCKS5 port. The Tor SOCKS port I have allocated to email
is 127.0.0.1:9110. I suppose this should be done like a tunnel, so that 465
and 995 accesses go through 9110 and come out the other end of the tunnel (at
the Exit Node) and proceed to the mail server as 465 and 995, if you take my
meaning. The closest thing this sounds like to me is NAT, but I don't know
what the fact of a SOCKS port means in this respect, and no one else I've asked
does either.
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