Evolution: Using a SOCKS proxy

Started playing a bit with Evolution today on my Ubuntu Linux system.

The first stumbling block for me was that I wanted to access my work email through a SOCKS proxy and I didn’t see any settings for that in the app. I tried setting up a SOCKS proxy in the GNOME “Network Proxy” control panel, but Evolution didn’t seem to use that.

My solution was to use tsocks.

sudo apt-get install tsocks
tsocks evolution

This should work with any socksifier like tsocks, runsocks, dante, etc.