Evolution send mail though proxy setting, how to? -- 2.26.1 still doesn't work!

[Christopher Chan]

Daniel.Li wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:33 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>   
>> Daniel,
>>
>> Daniel.Li wrote:
>>     
>>> I found evolution 2.26.1 still doesn't work when sending mail though
>>> proxy.
>>>
>>> Is it ture?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Email clients do not use proxies.
>>     
>
> Actually it does have a proxy setting in evolution, see below path.
>
> Edit -> Preferences -> Network Preferences -> proxy settings
>   
Could be a generic Gnome thing for all I know. I do not use Evolution. 
You won't find any proxy setting in Thunderbird. Proxy servers caught 
facilitating smtp connections will be firewalled, blocked and placed on 
appropriate black lists.

>
> And we also have network proxy setting in ubuntu system, see below path.
>
> System -> Network proxy
>   
That is most likely a system wide setting for those gnome apps that check.

> What I'm quite confused is
>
> a) Is their any relation ship between above to settings?
>   
I do not know.

> b) How to set proxy correctly for evolution? Cause we have a 8080 proxy
> server connected to internet.
>   
Email clients are supposed to connect directly. Period. Get your network 
admin to do natting or whatever. If it is company policy not to allow 
connections to external mail servers for your private mailboxes, tough.

> c) Evolution 2.24 has a bug with this, and it's fixed on 2.26. Is it
> true?
>
> I have been waiting for 2.26 for quite a long time :(
>   

It is not a bug if the proxy server blocks CONNECT to smtp or other non 
http related ports.