[fetchmail-users] fetchmail and socks5

[Jochen Hayek]

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.

I had to get rid of my local /etc/socks.conf , so that fetchmail talked straight to the IMAP instead of through the socks5 proxy.

I would actually prefer a command line option and an entry in the RC file.

Is there already a feature of fetchmail, that this could be made similar to?



Does the community have any comments on this?

J.