On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:53 AM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2022-04-06 at 14:19:43, Shaoxuan Yuan wrote: > > Greetings, Git community, > > > > I'm using git-send-email with Git 2.35.1 under system > > 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2, x86_64 GNU/Linux. > > > > I am on a system-wide socks5 proxy. Although I set the global > > .gitconfig to use the socks5 proxy trying to send emails, the > > connection to the SMTP server seems does not go through the proxy at > > all. > > > > Other git commands do go through the globally set .gitconfig proxy, > > git-send-email seems to be an exception. > > I think you're referring to http.proxy. That affects only HTTP, HTTPS, > and FTP (if we even still support that). All of those protocols are > handled by libcurl, which includes native proxy support. It doesn't > affect other protocols like SSH or SMTP. > > > So I'm wondering if there needs to be a code change in > > 'git-send-email.perl' to run the connection through a proxy, or I just > > need to tune the setting to accomplish this? > > git send-email is written in Perl and doesn't use libcurl, so it doesn't > have proxy support. If there's a particular optional module we could > dynamically load to provide proxy support, that's an option we could > support if someone wanted to provide a patch. > > In the mean time, you could also try using some sort of tool, like > socat, to bind a local port tunnelling over the proxy to the destination > server and then use SMTP over that local port to connect. > -- > brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) > Toronto, Ontario, CA Thanks, it's pretty informative ;-) -- Thanks & Regards, Shaoxuan
