Re: [msmtp-users] Proxy support patch

[Martin Lambers <marlam@...23...>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:35:36 +0200, Ángel González wrote:
> Martin Lambers wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Is there any need for anything except SOCKS5? It has been around
> > for ages, does anybody really still need SOCKS4?
> 
> If I remember right, they are so similar that it's simple to support
> both with one hit.

That's true if we do DNS ourselves (necessary for SOCKS4, optional for
SOCKS5), but we want the proxy to do it for us, especially in the
context of Tor usage, and then SOCKS5 is different (simpler) than
SOCKS4.

Martin