From 1dd8b4d5e857cf7b44288f304fc054a36086289e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:00:39 +0000
Subject: Document SOCKS_CONF environment variable.

svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5054
---
 fetchmail-FAQ.html | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'fetchmail-FAQ.html')

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>
 
-- 
cgit v1.2.3