From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: numbchild@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to set proxy for smtpmail.el ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:57:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lfjepnqg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1eYuLe-uzF=+b++42wj+PKmkZ=KaZd0MoQ3akGKnTUHFFKqg@mail.gmail.com> (numbchild@gmail.com's message of "Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:50:39 +0800")
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:50:39 +0800, "numbchild@gmail.com" <numbchild@gmail.com> said:
stardiviner> I'm unable to send email with smtpmail.el
stardiviner> I think it might be because of the internet censorship firewall in China.
stardiviner> So I decided to use a proxy for smtpmail. I have not found the smtpmail
stardiviner> options for setting proxy. Then I dive into `smtpmail-send-it` function
stardiviner> source code. Found it uses `open-network-stream` to send email. Then the
stardiviner> question is then how to set a proxy for `open-network-stream`? I checked
stardiviner> this function's arguments. No result.
SMTP via a proxy sounds like a bad idea: you give the proxy access to
all your email. Having said that, thereʼs a socks.el which contains
'socks-open-network-stream' that might work for you. Iʼve not tried it
myself.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-20 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-20 2:50 How to set proxy for smtpmail.el ? numbchild
2020-07-20 8:57 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-07-20 18:23 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-20 18:26 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
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