Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/8/07, Jochen Hayek <Joc...@ha...> wrote:
> A while ago I started experiments with socks5 (-> dante)
> and created a /etc/socks.conf on my local host and I set up a socks5 proxy server on a neighbour box.
>
> I did not instruct my local fetchmail to make use of my socks5 proxy
> and I also wasn't aware, that my local fetchmail actually does us it,
> but in a situation, when that proxy server on the neighbour box temporarily did not run,
> I finally noticed (using "strace"), that fetchmail contacted my socks5 proxy.
>
>
> I did some rtfm-ing,
> but I did not find a way to instruct fetchmail to *not* attempt contacting my socks5 proxy.

Fetchmail has *no* native socks support.  You're either running it
with a socks wrapper (runsock/socksify) or have added this yourself
(eg via ld.so.preload).  It's hard to say though as you've provided no
real information (version numbers, contents of configuration files,
command lines used, anything really).

I'd suggest you consult the dante documentation or mailing list, for
help on how to configure dante :)

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