Thank you for your input Sanktwo - I appreciate your time and I will try some of your suggestions soon
I'm still hoping that someone may come up with the definative answer
Thanks again
gmd
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Browse All Topics I have wasted 3 days trying to find what config. settings to use with "ANY" of the popular email clients (I have most of them on my pc) to make them run through tor and it's recommended proxy server (Privoxy) - so - "according to the tor site" it will make my emails anonymous (IP is stripped)
Acording to the 'tor' website I can point my client towards privoxy by using this setting 'localhost-port-8118) - but it doesn't work
Here is a copy/paste from the tor site: --
"To Torify an application that supports http, just point it at Privoxy (that is, localhost port 8118). To use SOCKS directly (for example, for instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc.), point your application directly at Tor (localhost port 9050). For applications that support neither SOCKS nor http, you should look at using tsocks to dynamically replace the system calls in your program to route through Tor. If you want to use SOCKS 4A, consider using socat (specific instructions are in the Tor Wiki)."
An explaination or a link that explains how to do it would be greatly appreciated
I couldn't find the (right topic area) so I hope this gets to the right "expert(s)"
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by: SanktwoPosted on 2005-08-18 at 06:09:22ID: 14699936
It would seem from the delay in any responses that there are no ready answers.
m/Download /SocksCapD ownload/ in dex.asp ? You have to run such a socks client and get it to intercept Eudora's use of the POP3 port. Whether it will give you IP anonymity, I have no idea.
First, I am fairly sure that Eudora is not natively SOCKS compliant i.e. there is no way to tell it the address of the socks forwarder.
Thus, the only way to implement what you want is to run a local "intercepting" proxy. That means that Winsock access (I think Eudora uses that) gets intercepted for the application you nominate for the service. Somehow applications like Norton work like that, intercepting both inbound and outbound mail. Whether such a proxy would clash with Norton, I have no idea.
Did you try running a sockifier such as:
http://www.socks.permeo.co
I have no personal experience of this so you may be on your own. Best of luck.