Socks5 Proxy in Mail.app

So this is some background. I'm a Peace Corps volunteer living in Samoa. I have a powerbook, and my roommate just purchased a Macbook Pro --- a very nice machine. We work at the National University and get our internet access through a connection in American Samoa. Our university filters traffic as well as at least one person upstream of us.
When I got here, I realized that pop requests were being dropped. For me this wasn't a problem. I came from a unix world, and I'm still using fetchmail to get my email. I have shell accounts on several computers in the states, so I filter all my email fetchings through a socks 5 proxy. Now my roommate just got his computer, and he's coming from the other end of the computing world. He's used windows a bit, but doesnt know much about computers.
So he'd like to use the Mail.app to check his yahoo mail. The delima is that pop access is being blocked. So I thought, hey I can set up a socks 5 proxy and all I should have to do is make some changes in his network settings. I tried to test it out on my powerbook, but I'm having no luck. I can route safari traffic through the proxy just fine, but Mail.app doesn't seem to respect these settings. I've read on the internet that other people have had similar problems. So these are my questions: is there a way to get mail.app to use proxy settings of some sort? If not is there an alternative mail client someone can suggest which will respect these settings?
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail.app 2.0.7 (746.2/749.3)

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Today I've updated my PowerBook to MacOS X 10.4.7. All the process was fine, but Mail didn't connect to any server. After reading some posts in this forum I've unmarked the SOCKS proxy settings in the Network pref. pane, and I've recovered the 10.4.6 functionallity. So at least I can work.
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- I need to disable the SOCKS proxy to be able to access the local mail server. So the 'Bypass proxy settings' in the Network preference pane seems to not work ( I've tried all kind of syntaxs: *.domain, server.domain, IP address, etc. )
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