Re: How to use Gnus nnimap through socks5 proxy

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Quanyang Liu <lqymgt@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 06 2015 at 16:12:41 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> :)
>>
>
> ahh, this work fine :)
>
> But I don't know how long can it works...

We never know!

>> 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.
>>
>
> Yep, this is another option... I would try it if no other way works...