[Dovecot] Can Dovecot Proxy GMail?
Hi,
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?
Thanks Paul
Paul Carter-Brown schreef:
Hi,
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?
Thanks Paul
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.
-- Regards, Tom
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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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Patrick Nagel
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Paul Carter-Brown
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Tom Hendrikx