[tor-talk] Why postfix cannot work on tor (was What are some free and private emai providers?)

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:01:34 +0100 (CET) tor-talk at lists.torproject.org wrote:

> 
> > Exim or postfix are not so hard to learn and roundcube is pretty
> > easy to install :)
> 
> Postfix does not work with tor.
> 
> There are a few problems:
> 
> - Postfix does not have a SOCKS4a proxy option (in fact, no proxy
>   option)
> 
> - TorDNS cannot handle MX lookups.  So running postfix on a
>   transparent proxy fails because MX lookups fail.
> 
> - Torsocks has a documented feature to disable tordns, but it's
>   broken.
> 
> Does Exim or Roundcube have a way around these problems?

Does Sendmail work with Tor?


> 

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