[Gutsy]Socks proxy settings are ignored by Evolution and Apt

[der_vegi]

I am running Gutsy Beta with all the updates until Oct. 5th on an AMD64 machine.

Here's the problem: I am connecting to the internet over WLAN, using a VPN connection and a proxy is needed for the network. The proxy of the normal network blocks most ports, including POP, SMTP etc., but SSH is open. Setting this proxy in system => settings => network proxy, apt recoginzes it and I can install updates and new packages.
Trying to use a SSH proxy with 'ssh -D 1080 user@host' and setting this as a socks proxy in Gnome (system => settings => network proxy: localhost and 1080), it doesn't work. I cannot download updates and Evolution (which uses these settings?) doesn't connect either. If I set exactly the same thing in Firefox, I can browse the web without a problem and Thunderbird works, too.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What sort of account do you use? There is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307589 about exchange. You should not describe different issues to a same bug, it doesn't make the triage work easy, apt and evolution are different software and not the same people are working on those

[der_vegi (m-may)]

> You should not describe different issues to a same bug
Yeah, that's why I reported it initially as a gnome bug, because I thought, it might be a problem of the gnome-wide proxy settings as both apt and evolution don't work with the socks-proxy.
What accounts I use? Gmail and a university account (IMAP).

[der_vegi (m-may)]

Oh, I just realized, that Epiphany uses the socks-proxy provided by the gnome-settings. And as Apt is always something special, I think it is indeed a problem of Evolution.

[der_vegi (m-may)]

Okay, Evolution is not yet capable of using a SOCKS proxy, it is planned for one of the next releases. => Marking as invalid.