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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: fellowes on September 08, 2012, 03:35 pm

Title: trying to configure thunderbird with Tor mail to use pgp on mac
Post by: fellowes on September 08, 2012, 03:35 pm
Sorry if this has been posted already but I am a newbie.

My question is I am trying to configure thunderbird with my Tormail account so I can send pgp mail.

I am on a Mac running OSX 10.6.8

I have all the pgp and encryption things in order but thunderbird will not sign into Tor.

Meaning TB will not send or receive mail.

I found these instructions on the tormail help page but I still can't get things to work can someone please help.

I am sure it is something small I am over looking I have been at this for 2 days I am pulling my hair out at this point..

2. Open Thunderbird.
3. Goto Thunderbird menu -> Preferences
4. Click Config Editor button.
5. In the config editor filter type in
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
6. Double click (→MAKE SURE← to double click) on it to change the
value from ‘False’ to ‘True’.
7. Close the Config Editor and click "Network & Disk Space" tab.
8. Click Settings Button.
9. Select Manual Proxy Configuration and fill in the following:

HTTP Proxy: 127.0.0.1 Port 8118
SSL Proxy: 127.0.0.1 Port 8118
Socks Host: 127.0.0.1 Port 9050

10. Select Socks v4.
11. Press OK.
12. Press OK again on the options window to close it.

Adding your Tor Mail account to Thunderbird

1. Open Thunderbird.
2. Goto Tools -> Account Settings -> Account Actions -> Add Mail
Account.
3. Enter your name (whatever you want to be displayed, its not your
username), email address and password.
4. Press Continue, Thunderbird should download the autoconfig file
from us.
5. Click Create Account.


9. Once you’ve created and added your new Tormail addy to
Thunderbird, you’ll want to generate a new key pair for your
addresss to enable GPG encryption. One public (to share freely).
One private (to guard with your life).

In Thunderbird, find your newly added Tormail addy on the left
menu. Scroll down and click on “OpenPGP Security” for your account.
Click, then click on the box next to ”Enable OpenPGP (Enigmail) for
this identity.”

Also click the boxes next to: “Sign encrypted messages by default”.
“Encrypt messages by default”, and “Use PGP/MIME by default”.

Go back to the OpenPGP Menu -> Key Managemnt -> Generate-> New Key
pair. Find your new Tormail you want to create a keypair for in the
drop-down menu, and click Generate Key. Move your mouse around to
generate some randomness while your key is being created.
Title: Re: trying to configure thunderbird with Tor mail to use pgp on mac
Post by: fellowes on September 09, 2012, 01:56 pm
GURU THANK YOU !!! all setup and running ....I kept forgetting to put none in for the ssl. once all that was done I finally got the red box and finished with the finalization of the install..thx again
Title: Re: trying to configure thunderbird with Tor mail to use pgp on mac
Post by: bowfly7 on September 19, 2012, 04:08 pm
for nearly two weeks i have been trying this exactly as it says here now  when i try to test an encripted email it says
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server t failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server settings are correct and try again, or contact the server administrator.


please help me
i have the same mac with 10.6.8
Title: Re: trying to configure thunderbird with Tor mail to use pgp on mac
Post by: Bristow8080 on November 24, 2012, 11:40 pm
Thanks Guru, immensely helpful tutorial. Now off to practice and lose my PGP fear here; http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=30938.0. This is a great forum.  Appreciating the support.