Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

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

"Rob MacGregor" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> I'd be tempted to go with your second paragraph - if fetchmail is
> linked with the socks libraries *and* the required socks config file
> is in place then, by default, use socks.  As long as there is a
> command line argument to either disable socks or use an alternative
> socks config file (which implicitly enables socks) then that should be
> fine.

I have decided to do exactly that, even if it causes pain to those who
experiment with socks -- IOW, if you leave shards lying around, wear
tough shoes.

>> Not my essay, and I'm not enthusiastic about several of the assumptions
>> fetchmail makes, and I'm still pondering whether a complete redesign is
>> more of an effort than rewriting existing code...
>
> Which is more effort to maintain :)

Need not be your concern though. 8-)

> It probably wouldn't hurt for the --configdump option to include the
> fact that socks is compiled in - which, in theory, is little more
> than:
>
> #ifdef HAVE_SOCKS
>     "'socks',"
> #endif
>
> after line 186 of conf.c

Done for 6.3.8. Thanks for the report.

-- 
Matthias Andree