Thank you Gökşin and Pacifica. I guess it worked because after I started TBB (by clicking the desktop application "start-tor-browser.desktop") and then Thunderbird+Birdy, my mails were sent in plain txt and no errors were raised. However, how can I validate that the emails were actually sent over the TOR network? Perhaps by looking into the source details of the email message at the receiver's end?
Last question: I might consider to use the system-installed Tor as opening the Tor Browser every time that you want to send emails is a little bit 'inefficient'. @Pacifica, what is your recommendation and is there any extended documentation about how to use the system version? A step-by-step would be helpful. Thank you for your time. [email protected]: > On 2015-05-08 12:51, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: >> Fri, 08 May 2015 07:29:56 +0000 tarihinde >> "Vincent Schouten [info]" <[email protected]> yazmış: >> >> Hello Vincent >> >>> So, I checked the troubleshooting >>> section,"https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy#Troubleshooting";, >>> >>> and it mentions this: >>> /"//Make sure Tor is running and listening on 127.0.0.1 (localhost) on >>> port 9150. "/ >>> I had already installed the Tor Browser Bundle, but it is still not >>> clear what you mean by "running Tor". >>> Do you mean, and for the record, I work on a Linux machine, to go to >>> the command console and execute the command 'start-tor-browser' in >>> the Tor directory? >>> (Data/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/) >>> Or are you talking about a service that needs to run in the >>> background? And if so, how does I run such a service, and could this >>> information be added on the Birdy site? >>> >> >> You can run Tor via Tor Browser Bundle. Simply start TBB and then run >> "Thunderbird+Torbirdy". >> >> Other option is install tor as a service and it will run at boot time >> or later depending to configuration. Make sure that Tor service is >> running before launching "Thunderbird+torbirdy" > > > Indeed TorBirdy expects the Tor Browser Bundle version of tor, not a > system-installed tor. TorBirdy is set by default to listen on port 9150, > which is the port for the Tor Browser Bundle. > > So, by default, it will not work with a system-installed tor, which is > port 9050. The only exception to this default scenario is in Debian, if > you install the xul-ext-torbirdy package, which will instead use the > system tor (port 9050) instead of the TBB tor (9150). > > Else, you can configure TorBirdy in the network settings to simply use > port 9050 instead of 9150 if you want to use system tor. > > Hope this helps. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
