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://127.0.0.1:8080" works
perfectly for IMAP connections. But it looks to me like SMTP connections
bypass the proxy.*
Unfortunately for my use case, quite often I lose access to smtp.gmail.com
before losing imap.gmail.com -- I can read my mail in Trojita, and when I
send, it can save the message into the sent folder, but the SMTP connection
times out. Then I have to go in on my phone or tablet and forward the saved
message to the recipient.
I think users would expect all e-mail traffic to go through the proxy, not
only IMAP.
Thanks,
James
* I used nethogs to monitor which applications are sending or receiving
network traffic. When a connection is using the proxy, its traffic shows up
under "ssh"; if it shows up under the application name, then it's a direct
connection. When I send a message, I see outgoing traffic for ssh at first,
when it's saving the message to the sent folder. Then, the SMTP
transmission clearly appears for "trojita."
