Re: [Evolution] Evolution, VPNs and Google

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 18:12 -0500, Japhering via evolution-list wrote:
> Evolution  3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
> Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
> ProtonVPN  and any number of others
>
> 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.   Occaisionally,  I'll get
> a Google notice that it blocked an attempted access, but it doesn't 
> happen consistently.

Can you access the Gmail account via the web interface? If so, there is
no reason for Evolution to have any problems. Evo (and Gmail) aren't
even aware they are running on a VPN and there are no configuration
options for this. If this isn't working, the problem may be with your
VPN setup. (I've used ExpressVPN without any issues.)

> Is this one of the cases, where configure Oauth2  would be of benefit?

No.

poc