Re: [Evolution] Evolution & onion-adress

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 18:52 +0200, Jerome Lille wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 13:36 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 11:59 +0200, Jerome Lille wrote:
> > > It is impossible to connect to a onion-address? I mean for calendar
> > > and contacts?
> >
> >     Hi,
> > you do not need to resend the question, (I guess) people would answer
> > if they know the answer, or even when they notice the question at all
> > (you resent it less than 24 hours after the initial question, which
> > is
> > in hurry, especially when it comes to the mailing list questions).
> >
> > For me personally, I've no idea what the onion-address means at all.
> > I'd suggest to use a proxy, a tunnel or some such thing, if it can
> > connect to the onion-address with no problem.
>
> Sorry for not explaining better. A .onion top level domain is a special
> TLD used for addressing hidden services in the tor network. It was
> reserved for that purpose by the IETF in 2015 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7686
>
> I already have a proxy/tor-relay on my laptop. It runs on
> localhost:9050. For example I have configured the Nextcloud desktop
> client to use that proxy to connect to my Nextcloud server.
>
> But I don't know how to do the same with Evolution.

I don't understand what you're trying to do. What services are running
on the Nextcloud server that Evolution would connect to? Mail? LDAP?
Why can't you configure them in the same way you would configure any
such service? Surely the communication through the Tor network is
supposed to be transparent.

poc