#67 SOCKS Proxy Support

[Eleanor Saitta]

I frequently need to tunnel connections to my exchange server over a SOCKS proxy. When I'm on untrusted networks, it would be good if DavMail would also do DNS requests over SOCKS5. Can SOCKS5 support with remote DNS be added in a future version?

[Mickael Guessant]

I don't understand why you need socks to access Exchange: you could use a normal proxy already supported by DavMail

[Eleanor Saitta]

Because I don't have an HTTP proxy available to me which can see the exchange server, only a SOCKS proxy.

More generally, both SSH and TOR, and many applications as well, are moving to SOCKS5 as their standard proxy protocol; it would be good if DavMail supported both.

[Mickael Guessant]

Just in case, did you try to set standard Java socks options:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html

java -DsocksProxyHost=socks.mydomain.com

[Mickael Guessant]

Specific use case, won't implement except if someone provides a patch.

[Oleksandr Huziy]

Hi Mickael:

How would you call davmail with java? to pass the proxy?

java -DsocksProxyServer=localhost -DsocksProxyPort=8080 Main.class .davmail.properties

What is the Main.class ? I installled it on linux using apt.

Thanks

[Edward J. Sabol]

There appears to be some proxy support. There are settings in the .davmail.properties file you can set, but it's not SOCKS V5? Please add support for SOCKS V5.