Re: How to get git-send-email use a proxy?

[Shaoxuan Yuan <shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:53 AM brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> 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 ;-)

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Thanks & Regards,
Shaoxuan