Described fully here: Cannot connect to MTProto proxies before connecting to a SOCKS proxy · Issue #25888 · telegramdesktop/tdesktop · GitHub When I open Telegram, I cannot connect to any of MTProto proxies, unless I first connect to my local port-forwarded SOCK5 proxy first. After that, all proxie…

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Not working. BTW, thanks. The problem is not with the proxies; they start working successfully after I connect to my local SOCKS5 proxy, but not before. Kinda weird. P.S.: If it helps, the SOCKS5 proxy is located on 127.0.0.1:55111, which port-forwards the traffic to a remote via SSH.

Did you see that it is a newer Telegram app needed to do the settings as explained on the manual above. Then you should be able to start it automatically. At least as I understood the manual.

If I understood correctly, you mean my Telegram app is outdated. No, it’s one of the latest versions (v4.6.2). Although it shouldn’t make a difference, but I did configure it manually (after doing automatically via the default trigger) and no luck.

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ilikelinux (ilikelinux) February 20, 2023, 1:33pm 2

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