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

[vvt at mail-on.us]

> It does make DNS calls of course, but nobody wrote DNS proxying for  
> Claws, which is why it does not have that option.
>

Can you elaborate? Was it lack of money? No knowledgeable programmers?  
To difficult a task? Or was
it decided that proxy dns is not required?

I am not a programmer. And I am not able to assess how big a given programmer
task is. I know that thunderbird and icedove have a working proxy
dns option. And it is free software.
Can you tell if the proxy dns software in thunderbird and icedove
is a modular piece of software? That could rather easily get incorporated
in claws mail? Or it would be a major task?

In configuration -> preferences -> proxy
claws mail should add a warning saying: Warning claws mail is prone  
for dns leaking.
There might be people who are aware about what socks5 support is. But
they are not aware about the dns leaking matter.


> will be performed via the proxy. (Including, IIRC, plugin-related  
> network traffic).
> Claws-Mail does not phone HQ, upload telemetrics or anything like that.
>

Well done.






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