Re: [trojita] System proxy settings apply to IMAP but not SMTP

2014-03-30 Thread Jan Kundrát
On Sunday, 30 March 2014 11:35:19 CEST, James Harkins wrote: I think users would expect all e-mail traffic to go through the proxy, not only IMAP. True. Please file a bug. Th reason behind this is that we're using an obsolete SMTP library which uses completely different infrastructure for con

[trojita] System proxy settings apply to IMAP but not SMTP

2014-03-30 Thread James Harkins
Hi, just joining the mailing list (perhaps belatedly). I had asked Jan sometime ago about accessing e-mail through a proxy. (Sometimes I need this when The Great Firewall of China gets more strict and blocks imap.gmail.com and/or smtp.gmail.com.) The trick of doing "export http_proxy=socks5:/