Note: As I was putting together a question, I found an answer to my particular problem but decided to post as it may help someone else.
Problem:
Most email clients can download email but sending is unfortunately blocked at most coffee shops, public libraries, and other semi-anonymous Internet sources. I realize this is to help prevent spam, but there's got to be a way around this; it relegates some very mature email tools to little more than backup software. Currently I've got to pull up a webmail client in order to send something -- I'd like to do everything inside my email client.
A large percentage of portable users are going to run into this situation at some point as well, so I thought I'd poll the forums.
Mozilla's help site doesn't provide much more than contacting the ISP. I tried changing the port number to 587 (supported by my pop mail provider) without success.
Suggests and ideas welcome.
Solution:
What worked for me was to keep digging for alternate ports. In my case, my email provider offers a port 465 SSL connection and that went through without issue.
Last edited by webfork on Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Port 25 is blocked nearly everywhere except outbound ports from actual mail servers (and should be). Nearly all (good) email providers provide an SSL secured port. These are not blocked anywhere except places that specifically are trying to prevent email from unregulated clients (think fortune 500 companies and goverment buildings).
If your provider doesn't make an SSL port available, you should switch email providers. Sending email passwords in cleartext is just horrible security-wise.
If you sent mail via Tor using port 25, I'd wager it'll probably be blocked or binned automatically by a filter as spam. Tor exit points spew out lots of spam (both forum and email) and are routinely blocked or filtered.
If you sent mail via Tor using port 25, I'd wager it'll probably be blocked or binned automatically by a filter as spam. Tor exit points spew out lots of spam (both forum and email) and are routinely blocked or filtered.
I agree. However, as different Tor endpoints enforce different rules, it might still work in a pinch. Thanks m^(2)
