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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 17168554..034a4111 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -1971,15 +1971,23 @@ sites.)</p> methods</h1> <h2><a id="K1" name="K1">K1. How can I use fetchmail with SOCKS?</a></h2> -<p>Giuseppe Guerini added a --with-socks option that supports -linking with socks library. If you specify the value of this option -as "yes", the configure script will try to find the Rconnect +<p>Giuseppe Guerini added a <kbd>--with-socks</kbd> compile-time option +that supports linking with socks library. If you specify the value of +this option as "yes", the configure script will try to find the Rconnect library and set the makefile up to link it. You can also specify a directory containing the Rconnect library.</p> -<p>Alan Schmitt has added a similar --with-socks5 option that may +<p>Alan Schmitt has added a similar <kbd>--with-socks5</kbd> option that may work better if you have a recent version of the SOCKS library.</p> +<p>In either case, fetchmail has no direct configuration hooks, but you +can specify which socks configuration file the library should read by +means of the <tt>SOCKS_CONF</tt> environment variable. In order to +bypass the SOCKS proxy altogether, you could run (adding your usual +options to the end of this line):</p> + +<pre>env SOCKS_CONF=/dev/null fetchmail</pre> + <h2><a id="K2" name="K2">K2. How can I use fetchmail with IPv6 and IPsec?</a></h2> |