Looking some more, it looks like it is a matter of Thunderbird not proxying the DNS queries properly (or at all).
For Firefox, the following settings fix the problem: Preference Name Status Type Value network.proxy.socks_remote_dns user set boolean true For Thunderbird, DNS lookup should go along by default with the proxy or at least have a visible checkbox on the proxy dialog. -- thunderbird cannot use socks proxy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
