Re: [Tails-dev] Thoughts on reading mail

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Hi William & others,

William Waites wrote (11 Jun 2014 07:50:02 GMT) :
> Fair enough. Actually at that point I'd probably go back to my odd
> habit of using emacs for mail -- I'm probably not really your target
> user here!


You're certainly part of our target userbase, although probably not of
the kind we want to optimize Tails for. However, the
live-additional-software.conf feature is meant to make you feel
welcome, so you can use Gnus, MH-E or whatever inside Tails :)

>> If interested, then I encourage you to look into Torbirdy, and ensure
>> that it does a good enough job in this area: this will help us migrate
>> ASAP, and provide a better email user story :)


> Had a brief look.


:)

> One questionable practice is using 127.0.0.1 for HELO/EHLO. This is
> strictly valid according to the RFC but against the spirit (which is
> meant to identify the sending host). I suspect some SMTP servers
> would reject this.


I've been doing this for years, and this does make a few rare
antispams unhappy, but I've found it affordable.

> Doesn't touch X-Mailer though.


Ah, then maybe it could be worth looking at the paper that their work
is based on, maybe there's something about it in there:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/raw-attachment/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/EMail/Thunderbird/Thunderbird%2BTor.pdf

And if there isn't, maybe take this to the Torbirdy developers?

Cheers,
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