Welcome to the Courier Socks 5 proxy library.

A future version of the Courier will have the ability to send outbound
mail from behind a Socks 5 firewall.

The Socks 5 support code will not be directly included in Courier.
This is because Socks proxying logic is a more platform-specific function,
and may not reliably work on all platforms supported by Courier.

Therefore, the Socks 5 proxy logic will be packaged as a separate tarball,
and can be optionally installed before installing Courier itself.
Courier will not require the socks library, but will use it, if available.

This Socks 5 support library can therefore be tested independently of
Courier.

