Re: TOR & GMail

Richard wrote:
"Mike Easter"

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.

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.

That is what I did. Since I logged in to Gmail to access the
newsgroups, which posts as from my Gmail account (shows user name,
email in posts), I took it that I was accessing the group through
Gmail.

No, you were GGing with a gmail addy login. That is, the 'google
account' login was your gmail account.
https://www.google.com/groups/signin? Sign in to your Google account

It is also possible to be logged into your gmail mail interface and
navigate 'out' of mail but still be logged into googlegroups with your
gmail login condition.

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

IE is the browser I used. It was configured as far as I could tell. I
ran tests on a couple of different boards for testing and it checked
out okay. That is why I was confused about it.

The way it looks in the IE connection settings about using a proxy or
not should be pretty clear. Also, if IE is using the Tor, sites like
whatismyip should not be showing your IP. http://www.whatismyip.com
WhatIsMyIP.com is the fastest and easiest way to determine your IP
address.

The other poster suggested an issue with javascript/activex. Gmail's
standard view requires javascript, so that may have been what I
overlooked. I'll have to double check that when I get a chance.


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Mike Easter

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