Re: [Evolution] Evolution, VPNs and Google

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> 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).

> 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.