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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: BigEasy on August 30, 2012, 04:38 am
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From the fine purveyors of Tor comes TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail clients. It may also work with other non-web browser Mozilla programs such as Sunbird.
It will force your mail client to use Tor for all mail connections. I have tested torbirdy on Thunderbird and IceDove with Tormail and a couple other email providers and it works well. I have not had positive results try with GMail, which isn't too surprising.
You can install it from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/
Screenshots of how to set it up:
https://github.com/ioerror/torbirdy/wiki/Screen-shots
Project Page:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy
As you can see from the project project there is lots of work to go and being done on it currently.
*** Torbirdy is considered experimental and I only use it with on a fairly anonymous setup I have already ***
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this is sweet. im going to play around with it.
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It will force your mail client to use Tor for all mail connections. I have tested torbirdy on Thunderbird and IceDove with Tormail and a couple other email providers and it works well. I have not had positive results try with GMail, which isn't too surprising.
There's also an advanced setting to use it only with a single specific account. Now if it will allow setting it for multiple accounts, without requiring it for all accounts, I'll be a very happy chappy. :)
Thanks. +1
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This is cool, but very experimental and it changes a lot of settings, including for Enigmail.
If you use it and then decide to switch back you will need to check both Thunderbird settings and the settings for any other plug-in. So if you've changed your character set to something else (e.g. UTF-8) then you will need to restore those settings.
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dev work continues on tor-birdy
Some further info for people:
Jacob's tor-birdy announcement signed with his PGP Key:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-August/025066.html
and the torbirdy github repo which is housed at Jacob's github account (ioerror):
https://github.com/ioerror/torbirdy
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I'm using TorBirdy - it's awesome!