Dave schrieb:
First to admit I'm a newbie at Python, IMAP, or SSL. And it's been a
long time since I've posted anything to a Usenet group. But I've
spent countless hours spinning my wheels on this one, so I thought I'd
ask for help.
I'm trying write some Python code to connect to Gmail from work, where
I need to direct all non-HTTP traffic through a proxy server. Can
anyone provide syntax which would redirect the imap4_SSL method
through a proxy server:port? I suspect there are some environment
variables which, when set, will do this very easily and elegantly. I
also suspect there is a really complicated way to 'wrap' the imap
classes so as to force requests to go through a proxy which, as a
newbie, I am trying to avoid.
FYI, I'm currently running Python 2.5.2. via IDLE on Windows XP. But
when this project is done, I will move it to Linux.
AFAIK that's simply not possible. Proxying that is not transparent is
only (for practical matters, there might be esoteric protocols that do
that as well) defined for HTTP. So "I need to direct all non-HTTP
traffic through a proxy server." does not make much sense - at least to me.
In other words: there is no such thing as general proxying, and thus no
support in any library e.g. imaplib or such.
Do you have an example of an application (e.g. mailclient or such) that
*does* support the above scenario?
Diez
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