Re: How to use Gnus nnimap through socks5 proxy

[Chunyang Xu <xuchunyang56@gmail.com>]

Quanyang Liu writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am from somewhere in which people can not access to google...So, I
> want to use a socks5 proxy.

Chinese here, I can't surf the Internet without a 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?

Try proxychains[0] which can run command-line tools through a proxy.
When you install and configure[1] proxychains, just run:

$ proxychains emacs

Hope it works.

0: http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/
1: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/wiki/Using-Shadowsocks-with-Command-Line-Tools

>
> Thanks!

-- 
Chunyang Xu