From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T22:37:54+09:00
Subject: Re: connect to pop-server via proxy

born in USSR wrote:
> Is it possible to connect to pop3-server via proxy and how if it's
> possible?

What sort of a proxy?

If it's SOCKS, there are various SOCKS client implementations. Ruby 
itself includes SOCKSSocket, but unfortunately is a build-time option 
when you build Ruby because it depends on an external C library.

I came across several pure ruby SOCKS implementations: net/ssh has one, 
and there's http://rtokiwa.s55.xrea.com/wiki/index.php?SOCKSSocket. 
There may be others. You can probably plug these into ruby's existing 
net/pop3.rb without too much difficulty.

If it's an application-level proxy, then maybe you just need to make a 
normal pop3 login but pass a specially-formatted username to indicate 
where to connect to.
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