Mixmaster Options
Allpingers URL
QS comes with the only URLs available for this document. Things may change in the future. It can be changed here, if need be.
- mix.tls
This page tells QS the MX exchanges of all remailers along with info on the ports each support TLS. This page is downloaded when you update allpingers.txt, and should updated weekly or more often.
For more information about the list and it's fields, click here,
online: noreply.org/tls
Update remailer stats
If you don't use QS often, leave this at update before each send. However, if you use QS frequently through the day, you'll want to select once a day. Don't turn updating off unless you have to, to get a message out. You need to solve the problem that's interfering with a successful update then get updates turned back on. See The Stats Manager for more.
Send message directly to remailer MX when possible
When this option is enabled, QS will ignore the host you place in the Host header of your mixmaster message. However, you still need a valid, usable server in case sending to the remailer fails. In that case, QS will fallback to the server in the Host header. QS uses a second page downloaded at the time you get allpingers.txt, called mix.tls for this. It provides current info on remailer MX exchanges and TLS to what ports. Update this weekly or more.
- TLS/SSL preferred
When sending direct to remailers, QS tries to use TLS whenever possible. If a remailer doesn't support TLS at all, then a standard send, in the clear, to port 25 is done. If you enable TLS/SSL Preferred AND the host you place in the Host header supports TLS, QS will use that server rather than the clear send to the remailer. In other words, it insures that the send uses TLS. You can get a gmail.com account (or any service with SMTP/TLS) and use port 587. That approach works great. At the time of this writing (02-02-2010), one remailer, banana, will accept mail for any other remailer. If it still exists, you can setup a SMTP host profile for the remailer's server, snorky.mixmin.net on port 587. Then use it in your Host header.
Remailer pages
IMPORTANT: type2.list is now deprecated. Mixmaster doesn't need it. Any type2.list QS finds it will delete.
- mlist.txt
This is the vital statistics report. You must update it.
- pubring.mix
This is a keyring containing the cryptographic keys of all the existing remailers. It also must be fresh so always update this too.
- rlist.txt
QS uses this type I statistics report for checking max payload size allowed by each of the exit remailers, when you send an attachment. This info should be included in mlist.txt, but so far, not so. It only takes a second to download. Get it anyway and it'll be fresh when you need it.
- pubring.asc
QS is a type II remailer client. It has no use for this file at all. Don't bother to update it at all.
For more info on these remailer pages see: The Stats Manager