Comment 2 for bug 376825

Hey mate,

Unfortunately it's hard for me to test anymore, as I no longer need to
authenticate with a proxy. If you've fixed it or know that it should be
fixed now that's great :)

Regards,
Ben

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:00 AM, kurt belgrave <email address hidden> wrote:

> hey
> Are you still affected by this bug in the latest ubuntu release, also did
> you try checkgmail -update.
> Also looking at this bug i believe this should be feature request of the
> upstream checkgmail project.
> Cheers
>
> ** Changed in: checkgmail (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> https_proxy issue when proxy server requires authentication
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376825
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> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: checkgmail
>
> checkgmail does not appear to work with proxy servers that require
> authentication.
>
> using settings like the example below works for apt-get, etc, however
> checkgmail assumes that the first colon it comes across is the end of the
> proxy hostname.
>
> http_proxy=http://<domainname>\<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>
> https_proxy=http://<domainname>\<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>
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