[tor-talk] TorBirdy seems to connect to the same exit node again and again

[Sophie Hassfurther]

Dear TorBirdies!

I love TorBirdy.

That said, I have an odd problem using TorBirdy with Thunderbird. Since
yesterday, Thursday 9th, around 9am (that is daylight saving time +1h)
TorBirdy/Thunderbird shows some strange behaviour. Sometimes it just
works, but often I keep getting the same alert when trying to send emails:

"An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1
Service unavailable; client (176.108.160.214) blocked using
mail.badip.de Please check the message recipient xxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx.com
and try again."

So what I find strange, is that since two days TorBirdy seems to connect
to the same exit node whenever I login. When I check the Tor Browser
though, it says I am connected to Tor, showing a different (!) IP address.

I am not a very technical person, so maybe this is all expected
behavior, but I thought I'll ask. I hope this doesn't make me look like
an idiot

Below is the Thunderbird troubleshooting info, I have crossed out my in-
and outgoing server, as well as the (deactivated) plugins.

Thanks in advance
Sophie



  Application Basics

    Name: Thunderbird
    Version: 31.6.0
    User Agent:
    Profile Folder: Show in Finder
    Application Build ID: 20150330093429
    Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
    Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
    Memory Use: about:memory

  Mail and News Accounts
    account1:
      INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, SSL, passwordCleartext

    account2:
      INCOMING: account2, , (imap) xxxxxxxx.domainname.com:993, SSL,
passwordCleartext
      OUTGOING: xxxxxxxx.domainname.com:25, alwaysSTARTTLS,
passwordCleartext, true

  Crash Reports

  Extensions
    Enigmail, 1.8.1, true, {847b3a00-7ab1-11d4-8f02-006008948af5}
    TorBirdy, 0.1.4, true, castironthunderbirdclub at torproject.org

  Important Modified Preferences

    Name: Value

      accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
      browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
      browser.cache.disk.enable: false
      browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
      browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
      browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
      browser.cache.memory.enable: false
      dom.disable_image_src_set: true
      dom.ipc.plugins.java.enabled: false
      dom.storage.enabled: false
      extensions.lastAppVersion: 31.6.0
      font.internaluseonly.changed: true
      general.useragent.override:
      gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa: 4
      gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled: false
      javascript.enabled: false
      mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
      mail.spotlight.firstRunDone: true
      mailnews.database.global.datastore.id:
a4fcfcb3-c940-d248-bb65-49c72c5afdb
      media.ogg.enabled: false
      media.peerconnection.enabled: false
      media.wave.enabled: false
      media.webm.enabled: false
      network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 2
      network.cookie.lifetimePolicy: 2
      network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
      network.http.pipelining: true
      network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 12
      network.http.pipelining.ssl: true
      network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
      network.http.sendRefererHeader: 0
      network.http.spdy.enabled: false
      network.prefetch-next: false
      network.protocol-handler.warn-external.file: true
      network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ftp: true
      network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http: true
      network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https: true
      network.websocket.enabled: false
      permissions.default.image: 2
      places.database.lastMaintenance: 1428480697
      places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 80531
      plugin.importedState: true
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      plugin.state.xxxxxx: 0
      security.disable_button.openCertManager: false
      security.disable_button.openDeviceManager: false
      security.enable_ssl3: false
      security.enable_tls_session_tickets: false
      security.OCSP.disable_button.managecrl: false
      security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation: true
      security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken: true
      security.warn_entering_weak: true
      security.warn_submit_insecure: true
      webgl.disabled: true

  JavaScript

  Incremental GC: 1

  Accessibility

    Activated: 0
    Prevent Accessibility: 0

  Library Versions

      Expected minimum version
      Version in use

      NSPR
      4.10.6
      4.10.6

      NSS
      3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
      3.16.2.3 Basic ECC

      NSS Util
      3.16.2.3
      3.16.2.3

      NSS SSL
      3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
      3.16.2.3 Basic ECC

      NSS S/MIME
      3.16.2.3 Basic ECC
      3.16.2.3 Basic ECC