[Users] no proxy dns? Why not socks5 127.0.0.1?

[Marco Moock]

Am Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:10:47 +0000
schrieb Colin Leroy-Mira via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org>:

> > thunderbird has a proxy dns option. Claws-mail does not. Why not?
> > Claw.mail makes no dns calls?  
> 
> It does make DNS calls of course, but nobody wrote DNS proxying for
> Claws, which is why it does not have that option.

Does it make direct DNS calls or does it use the system's resolver
functions via glib?

> > claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Connecting_with_Tor
> > instructions say enter localhost. Why does it not say enter
> > 127.0.0.1?  
> 
> Because that's the same thing.

In most situations it is, but localhost will mostly mapped to 127.0.0.1
and ::1. A difference will exists if the service only runs on one of
those addresses.