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.
> 
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