[Users] Setting automatically a BBC copy for every outgoing message

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hello,

with other email programs I used to use localhost with my ssh client as
a SOCKS Proxy (dynamic port forwarding). So my surfing and mail sending
always originates from the same (personal) hosted server.

This is especially useful for surfing from untrusted WLANs or
restricted guest nets.

This does not (easily) work with Claws it seems (at least I haven't
found a configuration option for proxies). So the simplest alternative
is to use a VPN with your own server. Hast the same advantage in terms
of hiding your IP and shielding your Internet surfing to the local
(W)LAN.

You can then use the Google mail servers in that case, as they only see
the IP of your proxy server.

Gruss
Bernd

PS: there is even a number of VPN providers where you don't need to have
your own server and which allow you to select any location of the exit
node. And it is much faster and more reliable than using Tor or
similar.


Am Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:39:16 +0100 schrieb
alb348 at gmail.com:

> On 2014-02-02 10:28, Paul wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 02:09:44 +0100
> > Alby <alb348 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "Be careful! This sender failed our fraud detection checks."
> >>
> >> Obviously, this is not acceptable!!
> >> Too bad. Back to square one, looking for an alternative solution...
> >
> > Obviously you have legitimate reasons, (there are many), for doing
> > what you do, so their "protecting us from ourselves" approach is
> > pointless.
> 
> I do have legitimate reasons: simply the fact that I don't like other 
> people being told where I am. Nothing to do with spam. The standard 
> procedure of (nearly) all SMTP servers seriously compromises your 
> privacy. Nobody seems to realize this! Or to care. There is a lot of 
> talk about Google and others reading your data, extracting useful 
> information, making statistics, selling them, etc. This is all true, 
> probably, but it is nothing compared to the fact that when you send
> an email via SMTP, there is a 'tag' attached which tells the
> recipient "the sender is currently in this location". I see this as
> much more disturbing than having my whole emails read by a computer
> algorithm and by people who are totally unrelated to me and who are
> probably uninterested in me as a person, whereas the recipients of my
> emails may have all the reasons to be interested in me particularly.
> But this is a discussion that already took place on this list. For 
> anyone interested, see:
> http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/001264.html
> and
> http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/001268.html
> BTW, I am no longer interested in the webmail-powered solution for
> CM. I have linked to these posts only because they contain the
> explaination of the privacy threat.