I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but let's go:
Using Thunderbird, I'm trying to use paranoid.email 's TOR settings for my account. The clearnet details work fine, but I want to test the Tor setup out.
Tor is running:
~$ sudo service tor status
● tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri 2020-12-25 12:46:10 EST; 36s ago
Process: 17828 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 17828 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Dec 25 12:46:10 desktop systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)...
Dec 25 12:46:10 desktop systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master).
However in my terminal I can't interact with .onion sites (Not sure if I should be able to, for example in Lynx or via ping, curl, dig commands) and Thunderbird is not accepting the .onion mailserver settings despite them being 100% correct, copy/pasted from the email provider.
Another member has confirmed that they do work, so it seems to be on my side.
I'm assuming I need to do something in my /etc/tor/torrc file but I'm not quite sure.
Thoughts on how to get this to work properly?
Rambler OP wrote
Replying to (#1,121)
Thanks!
Still no go in Thunderbird with setting up the proxy. I'll dig into it more, because I think that's the ticket. The TorBirdy plugin is outdated and has been for a while, which is what seems to be used previously. I may boot up in Tails or something similar to see if the issue persists.