Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Jochen Hayek wrote:
> Trust me (pls!), neither explicit nor implicit sockisification
> *usually* work out of the box, ie. w/o changing the code,
> so somebody ("a user"), who "moves" into an enforced socks server
> environment, will have to try / verify socksification on every single
> application on its own, and not all at once by toggling the one and
> only global switch.

IMHO, the goal should be that configuring socks in one place makes it work 
everywhere.  No, that's not the current situation, but if I need socks 
then that's what I want.

Therefore, if I'm a user needing socks, I want to be able to set up 
socks.conf and have as much work with socks as possible.  I don't want to 
have to look for --enable-socks runtime switches everywhere.

So if fetchmail currently tries to use socks if you've set up socks.conf, 
then I think that's the right thing to do.  If you don't want fetchmail 
to use socks, don't set up socks.conf.

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