Re: TOR & GMail

Richard wrote:
I set up TOR, did tests, everything seemed fine.

Presumably you mean you performed this
http://tor.freehaven.net/docs/tor-doc-win32.html.en Step One: Download
and Install Tor -- Step Two: Configure your applications to use Tor --
Step Three: Make sure it's working

If you aren't already familiar with that page, you should read it.

That tor site also has some overview information about how it works here
http://tor.freehaven.net/overview.html.en Tor: Overview

If your browser were IE, you would check to see if it is using a proxy
in IE/ Tools/ Internet Options/ Connections tab - there is a Settings
button for whichever type of connectivity you are using. That is also
described in Step Two above.

Firefox's configuration to use a proxy is different.

I connected to Gmail through a browser,

Gmail thru' a browser is accessing gmail's web interface. Even without
Tor, gmailing does not show the IP of the sender in the headers of the
gmail received. I think you are confused about something. Gmailing
thru' the gmail /server/ not browser /does/ show the IP of the sender to
the recipient of the gmail.

posted a test message to a
news group,

Sending a mail message from /gmail/ to a news group would have to be
performed via a mail2news gateway; you wouldn't be able to post a news
message to a newsgroup from the gmail browser interface.

Perhaps you are thinking of Google groups instead of gmail. Then, you
would access the GG with your browser and post to a newsgroup with a
browser. That post would show your IP if you had not configured your
browser to use the proxy.

Google has many functions. Gmail is one of those. Googlegroups is
another. Gmail's front end can be seen here http://gmail.google.com/
and groups here http://groups.google.com/

and my home ip showed up in the headers.

If you were to post to GG with a browser which was not configured to use
the Tor proxy, it would show your IP.



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Mike Easter

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