Re: [Evolution] Evolution & onion-adress

[Jerome Lille <jerome lille ownbay net>]

On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 22:11 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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?

The answer is in the part you quoted, Calendar and Contacts.

/Jerome