Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Joc...@Ha... schrieb:
>>>>>> "RMG" == Rob MacGregor writes:
> 
> On 3/8/07, Jochen Hayek 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.
> 
>     RMG> Fetchmail has *no* native socks support.  
> 
> Currently I am convinced, your statement is incorrect.
> 
> 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.

Well - Dante doesn't have run-time switches, it redirects all the
network-related functions to itself, fetchmail has not means to
circumvent SOCKS if linked against it.
Such run-time configuration would have to happen by means of socks.conf.

I am not sure if that's possible with "via: direct" statements somehow
for your configuration.

HTH
MA