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| author | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2015-03-15 12:32:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org> | 2015-03-15 12:34:33 +0000 |
| commit | 7eb6c37c5084760c1d1469bd4be652b479a8df55 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d82e23bffa7a8970a8ba21c72a635414c69fa9b /doc/doc-txt | |
| parent | 7c9f0469cb39055fff4096d1cb17ed72429c6b6c (diff) | |
SOCKS: as a client, talk SMTP via a socks5 proxy. Bug 1590
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt | 33 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 33d23f72a..e4bc586a5 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ Version 4.86 6. A commandline option to write a comment into the logfile. + 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can + be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies + + Version 4.85 ------------ diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 4f763658b..e6e066c04 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -1086,6 +1086,39 @@ QUIT +SOCKS +------------------------------------------------------------ +Support for proxying outbound SMTP via a Socks 5 proxy +(RFC 1928) is included if Exim is compiled with +EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS defined. + +If an smtp transport has a nonempty socks_proxy option +defined, this is active. The option is expanded and +should be a list (colon-separated by default) of +proxy specifiers. Each proxy specifier is a list +(space-separated by default) where the initial element +is an IP address and any subsequent elements are options. + +Options are a string <name>=<value>. +These options are currently defined: +- "auth", with possible values "none" and "name". + Using "name" selects username/password authentication + per RFC 1929. Default is "none". +- "name" sets the authentication username. Default is empty. +- "pass" sets the authentication password. Default is empty. +- "port" sets the tcp port number for the proxy. Default is 1080. +- "tmo" sets a connection timeout in seconds for this proxy. Default is 5. + +Proxies from the list are tried in order until +one responds. The timeout for the overall connection +applies to the set of proxied attempts. + +If events are used, the remote IP/port during a +tcp:connect event will be that of the proxy. + + + + DANE ------------------------------------------------------------ DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities, as applied |