Setup Thunderbird with Tor

how to set up thunderbird to work through the network

You can route Thunderbird’s network traffic through Tor using Thunderbird’s “Network & Disk Space” Connection settings. Assuming you have Tor running on your local machine and on the default port, your proxy settings should look something like this:

@Noino this ‘scenario’ is enough to work with?


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You never mentioned what OS. If Windows then that port is 9150.

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Please keep in mind: It is not just the connection you have to worry about…

Old approach: https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/torbirdy

New approach in Tails: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17219

yes, but won`t set up on windows

Your logs say your socksport is 9051, so you have to use 127.0.0.1 and 9051 in the thunderbird settings.