[Dovecot] Can Dovecot Proxy GMail?

[Patrick Nagel]

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Hi,

I think the best solution would be, to set up a real mail system on site -
"outsourcing" and having a bad connection just doesn't work.
SMTP is much more suitable for server-to-server delivery than POP and IMAP, in
my experience. It has all the error reporting, automatic retry etc. features
for a reason :)

Patrick.

On 2009-07-15 17:02, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
> Paul Carter-Brown schreef:
>> We are using gmail (google apps) across our company with most users
>> using outlook (windoze) or evolution (linux) and imap/pop based on user
>> preference. We are having issues in that our internet links are fairly
>> slow and when users download mails they get frustrated with the time it
>> takes and often get timeouts and issues where outlook fails to fetch a
>> mail yet gmail thinks it was retrieved - users then complain of
>> "missing" emails.
>>
>> Is there a way that we could use dovecot (or similar?) to act as an imap
>> "proxy" and users connect to dovecot while dovecot connects to gmail?
> 
> When you setup a (realtime) proxy that connects to gmail when the user
> actually connects to dovecot, retrieving mail is still slow.
> 
> You could look into using fetchmail or something like that to pull
> everything from gmail and store it local. That way, when your users
> connect to dovecot, the mail is already on a local machine and access is
> fast. This implies of course that you need to setup fetchmail with the
> users' credentials.

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