Re: [msmtp-users] Proxy support patch

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

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:06:10 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp@...20...> wrote:
> > I think SOCKS5, with auth option, and with IPv6 support would be the
> > minimum requirement, which also happens to cover most users needs.
> 
> Another small bit: The same types from which a user may choose as
> their destination, it should be possible to give a hostname, IPv4, or
> IPv6 type for the address of the socks5 server itself as well.

That's already possible. Any of that will be passed as string into
getaddrinfo(). If you do that with an IP address string, it is my
understanding that it will be converted directly and will not result in
a DNS lookup.

Martin