anonym: > On 09/05/2015 08:45 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, we tried everything we could think about but epic failed to >> configure, on Tails, claws-mail's smtp to work with ruggedinbox.com >> >> we have inspected the iptables rules, syslog for dropped packets, tried >> with and without torsocks, changed all the possible knobs in claws >> config while debugging both client and server side .. >> >> On 'vanilla' debian, torsocks + claws-mail works ok. >> On Tails, no idea why it fails. > > This would be the sort of thing to report a bug to us about, however, we > may not want to divert too much energy on Claws Mail in Tails because... > >> So we tried to apt-get install icedove, manually installed torbirdy >> 0.1.4, configured an account >> and both POP and SMTP worked at the first shot. > > ... we're planning to move to Icedove (yay!), and that energy is likely > best spent on that instead. :) For details, see this ticket and its > children: > > https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5663 > >> Knowing that Tails blocks any 'direct' connection >> and that torbirdy automatically sets >> user_pref("mail.smtpserver.default.hello_argument", "127.0.0.1"); >> in thunderbird / icedove's prefs.js, >> do you think that we can suggest our users to use this combo ? >> Or have we missed some bug / leak ? > > I feel tempted to say yes. Given the awesome work done by the Torbirdy > people, Icedove + Torbirdy in Tails likely is better than our current > Claws Mail integration. I worry about users trying to set it up > themselves, though. While it should be as easy as documented on the > ticket, comment 13 [0], they'd pretty much need to use our Additional > Software persistence feature [1] and adding a custom persistence > configuration for ~/.icedove, which is a bit complex. I suppose you > providing a step-by-step guide (and preferably also directing support > questions to you) would be a good stopgap until we're done with > integrating Claws into Tails. At least that's my personal opinion. > > [0] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5663#note-13 > [1] > https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/configure/index.en.html#index14h2 > > _______________________________________________ > tails-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to > [email protected]. >
Thanks for the friendly and helpful replies and thanks for considering the persistency, forgot to test that (doh!) Yes we'll write a step-by-step guide and provide direct support. We'll publish here the link of the guide as soon as it is ready :) _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
