[tor-talk] Socks5 and msmtp

[grarpamp]

>> msmtp's complement, fetchmail, speaks of SOCKS in its
>> docs, mentions a couple socks libs. But I've not tested
>> fetchmail with them yet, it should be.
>
> fetchmail leacks inesorably (?) dns requests also used through a proxy
> socks -  this is my experience.
>
> I found fdm (http://fdm.sourceforge.net/) really better: it has native
> socks support and in my probes it does not leaks.

Interesting... will try it out, thanks for the link.

>> I think there's also a capable 'm' complement for fetching by
>> the same author as msmtp, but I don't remember its name.

Found it, it's mpop.sourceforge.net. It does not yet do IMAP[S],
but they seem open to it based on user feedback. +1.

>> esmtp seemed inferior at the time.

esmtp is now also officially unmaintained. And the underlying
libesmtp seems to be effectively unmaintained.