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Re: How to use Gnus nnimap through socks5 proxy


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: How to use Gnus nnimap through socks5 proxy
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:42:23 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Quanyang Liu <lqymgt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am from somewhere in which people can not access to google...So, I
>> want to use a socks5 proxy.
>>
>> I found there is socks.el, and I can use it to connect IRC. But I can
>> not find a way to use it in gnus.
>>
>> Does anyone here has idea about it?
>
> [eric@pellet ~]$ grep imap.gmail.com /etc/hosts
> 173.194.65.108 imap.gmail.com
>
> :)
>
> Otherwise, I use isync to sync my mail to a local dovecot server, and
> have Gnus connect to that dovecot server, rather than to Gmail directly.
> In that case, I can use a directive like this in my ~/.mbsyncrc file:
>
> Tunnel "ssh server.I.own tcpconnect imap.gmail.com 993"
>
> To run the traffic around. Of course, you need to have a server outside
> the country! But if you're not using a local dovecot, you could probably
> use a similar shell command in the nnimap setup of your ~/.gnus.el file.
>
> Eric

Sorry for not answering your actual question, BTW -- I've never used
socks.el before...




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