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Old February 28th 07, 10:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
F.H. Muffman
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Default outlook through socks proxy

Anon wrote:
I've been looking for a way to make a new POP3 or IMAP account in my
Outlook 2003 to always go through a localhost SOCKS proxy. I can't
seem to find any good reading about it.


Outlook is one of those programs that doesn't natively understand what a
proxy server is, but instead relies upon the operating system's network
stack to tell it where to go and what to do. I'm not aware of any add-ons
to do it either. What you may want to do is investigate if your localhost
proxy can do tunnels, where you hard code a high numbered port to simply go
straight to the pop3/imap server you want it to. That's what I used to do
when I needed such functionality.
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f.h.


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