Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

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

On 3/16/07, Jochen Hayek <Joc...@ha...> wrote:
>
> I don't want to appear picky (although I probably am),
> but if a usual DAU (and I myself have grown out of that state during some 25 years in IT),
> who certainly has the right to use a Linux, BSD or whatever distro instead of compiling everything himself from scratch
> and who esp. has the right to use a fetchmail, that comes with that distro,
> and such a distro may provide him with a socks enabled fetchmail,
> and if he experiments in one corner (socks),
> then he does not necessarily need to expect impact in a slightly different corner (fetchmail).

I'm with you on that one.  Sadly the problem is that whoever created
the binary package didn't understand the impact of what they were
doing when they compiled in SOCKS support.

> So ... it would be nice to have a socks enabled fetchmail
> defaulting to "do *not* use socks until I tell you via command line or via RC option".

If you're able to supply patches to make this happen then I suspect
the developers would be interested (not a dig, just a suggestion).
I've also submitted a patch for the man page (which should make it
into 6.3.8 with luck) to document this behaviour.

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