Re: How to use Gnus nnimap through socks5 proxy

[Quanyang Liu]

On Tue, Jan 06 2015 at 16:12:41 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Quanyang Liu <lqymgt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am from somewhere in which people can not access to google...So, I
>> want to use a socks5 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?
>
> [eric@pellet ~]$ grep imap.gmail.com /etc/hosts
> 173.194.65.108 imap.gmail.com
>
> :)
>

ahh, this work fine :)

But I don't know how long can it works...

> Otherwise, I use isync to sync my mail to a local dovecot server, and
> have Gnus connect to that dovecot server, rather than to Gmail directly.
> In that case, I can use a directive like this in my ~/.mbsyncrc file:
>
> Tunnel "ssh server.I.own tcpconnect imap.gmail.com 993"
>
> To run the traffic around. Of course, you need to have a server outside
> the country! But if you're not using a local dovecot, you could probably
> use a similar shell command in the nnimap setup of your ~/.gnus.el file.
>

Yep, this is another option... I would try it if no other way works...