Comment 0 for bug 243578

User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6c
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 (20030901)

I am using Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail client behind a firewall that does not allow direct outgoing internet access. Therefore I am using a socks-server to tunnel traffic to the internet. This works perfectly if I enter the socks server in Thunderbird's advanced options for retrieving and sending mail. BUT: I cannot access my external LDAP server to lookup addresses. It seems that an address book that is connected to an LDAP server does not take the socks setting into an account. Currently I use this workaround: I disable the use of socks within Thunderbird and instead socksify the complete application with Permeos 'SocksCap'. Then I can also access my external LDAP server. I have not tested this bug with Mozilla 1.4 or 1.5.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Work in a environment without direct internet access
2.enter a socks server in the advanced settings
3.try to use an external LDAP server for address lookup
Actual Results:
nothing - no response from the LDAP server

Expected Results:
Use the socks settings also for LDAP address retrieval