Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

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

On 3/15/07, Joc...@ha...
<Joc...@ha...> wrote:
> >>>>> "RMG" == Rob MacGregor writes:
>
> Currently I am convinced, your statement is incorrect.

(And eventually so am I - it's nice to learn something new :>)

> But I rather have some sympathy for your suspicion,
> as this magical and undescribed feature of fetchmail is certainly rather weird,
> and fetchmail shouldn't behave like that.
>
> Have you ever run fetchmail in a socks5 ready environment?
> Give yourself a try and let's continue discussing the matter than!

I have, and have never seen this before.

>     RMG> You're either running it
>     RMG> with a socks wrapper (runsock/socksify)
>     RMG> or have added this yourself (eg via ld.so.preload).
>
> No, I don't, nothing like that.
> (No socks wrapper, no LD_PRELOAD, no /etc/ld.so.preload, no ...)
> I told you above: "I did not instruct my local fetchmail to make use of my socks5 proxy"
> I mean, what I write.
> And you read my statement, didn't you?!?

If you're going to take that attitude I'll simply stop trying to help you :/

That you didn't (mean to) explicitly configure fetchmail itself to use
socks doesn't it isn't.

And, frankly, your original email contained no data at all, just your
words.  Without data showing what's actually going on I have to make
assumptions.

> Can you see "SOCKS" here:
>
>     [2007-03-15 14:11:49] johayek@HayekJ $ fetchmail --version
>     This is fetchmail release 6.3.2+POP2+IMAP-GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+SOCKS+NLS.

Yeah that looks like it was configured with socks support.  Having
myself dug through the documentation and FAQ it appears that there is
socks support after all (it's not documented anywhere except the FAQ):

http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#K1

Rebuild fetchmail without the socks support.  It looks like fetchmail
will automatically use socks if you build it with socks support -
there's no runtime switch.  (At least that's what a read of the source
tells me)

So, in short, while you didn't intend to configure fetchmail to use
your socks server, you did by configuring socks support into fetchmail
(and I'm guessing defining some environment variables or putting
entries in socks.conf).

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