On Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:24:10 PM Terry Gilsenan wrote: > I tried to explain this..: SSL and to some extent TLS will object to > transparent proxying. > > The problem is that Kmail doesn't know how to do socks, and that is what you > need to fix, either by changing to an email client that CAN to socks or by > installing (writing?) a socks "shim". > > You could certainly use IPTables to re-direct your connections to your local > socks proxy, but that doesn't fix the problem of your email client wanting to > speak POP3 or SMTP, when the socks proxy is wanting whatever connects to it > to speak SOCKS. > > POP3 has specific commands, SMTP has specific commands, SOCKS has specific > commands, POP3 commands addressed to a SOCKS proxy mean nothing to the SOCKS > proxy, so a redirect at the transport later is worthless, you need the > application layer taken care of, and that is outside the scope of IPTables. > > I simply don't think I can explain it any better than that, Sorry. > > Regards, > T
Thanks for your help. Your response indicates that 25 and 110 may work with the torsocks socksifier. Trouble is, then I'm transmitting all my email in the clear... through the Underground. So as email and SOCKS essentially speak incompatible protocols, the only answer is a socksified email client as you say. Well I'm open to suggestions. I don't know of any full-featured Linux clients other than Thunderbird, Evolution, Sylpheed, or Claws. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
