Author: adrelanos Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] send anonymous mail without registration -
Mixmaster over Tor
Hi!
intrigeri: > hi,
>
> adrelanos wrote (21 Jan 2013 16:39:41 GMT) :
>> intrigeri:
>>>> ~3 MB for postfix
>>>
>>> I like Postfix very much, and its security record is pretty good, but
>>> I'm not sure a full blown MTA in Postfix' class is needed for this
>>> usecase. Wouldn't e.g. msmtp-mta be enough?
>
>> Perhaps Mixmaster can be convinced to talk to it. I don't know.
>
> If Mixmaster talks the good ol' sendmail command line interface,
> this should be pretty easy.
Yes, mixmaster configuration file has a SENDMAIL option, I just don't
know much about MTA's yet.
>>>> Do you have any suggestions, especially on getting ride of the
>>>> MX record?
>>>
>>> I'm sorry if this question is naive, but... why exactly does Mixmaster
>>> send MX queries?
>
>> It is my understanding, that Mixmaster itself doesn't, but Postfix does.
>> It looks like the standard way for an MTA to resolve the MX for a given
>> mail server domain. I haven't found a way to disable it.
>
> Postfix has an option to skip MX lookups for a given hostname:
> look for "square brackets" in postconf(5).
This sounds great. Depending on the outcome of my previous mail, we
either keep that in mind or will do it.
