Oct 13 2006
Mail.app, SSH tunnels and SOCKS proxies
After having fought for several days with Mail.app trying to make it do whatever I wanted and failing to do so, I reached the following conclusions:
- IMAP over SSL does not work if used through an SSH tunnel
- SMTP over SSL does not work if a SOCKS proxy is in use
- When a SOCKS proxy is set, excluding a hostname or domain does not work: it just makes any connection to a matching host fail
- Using an PAC file does not give satisfactory results (I don’t remember the details of this one, but basically I bumped into a number of issues)
This is with Mail.app 2.1.1 (752.3). I thought that might be useful to others, and would love to be proven wrong.
