On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 09:11 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > What's the best practice for using Evolution across a VPN with GMail > ? > > It seems that every time I'm on a VPN either incoming, outgoing or > both operations fail. > > The VPN is setup at a system level - Evolution knows nothing about it. > The only issues I ever get are if I start the VPN while Evolution is > connected - presumably that's because the connections are persistent > (i.e. you don't login everytime the mail is refreshed) and the packets > get confused where they are supposed to go. I tend to get in to the > habit putting Evolution offline before starting the VPN. > > > Occaisionally, I'll get > a Google notice that it blocked an attempted access, but it doesn't > happen consistently. > > Is it a corporate VPN or one of the internet free ones - it may be that > Google has blacklisted known sources of problems (like one of the > throw-away VPN sites).
It is ProtonVPN from the folks the provide ProtonMail. It doesn't matter, which servers or countries. > > > Is this one of the cases, where configure Oauth2 would be of benefit? > > I doubt it - I'm no expert on OAuth2, but AFAIUI it's just a different > mechanism for authentication (using a token rather than a password), > other than that the connection just uses IMAP (or what Google calls > IMAP). > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list >
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