On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Alex Wanderley writes:

passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y user=remotemail destuser=remotemail@gmail.comhost= pop.gmail.com port=995 proxy_timeout=15 starttls=y driver = static } ... Oct 7 09:33:13 dserver dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: OK 2 user=remotemail proxy nopassword=y destuser= remotemail@gmail.com host=pop.gmail.com port=995 proxy _timeout=15 starttls=y hostip=74.125.142.108 pass=123456789 Oct 7 09:33:13 dserver dovecot: pop3-login: Debug: Ignoring unknown passdb extra field: nopassword Oct 7 09:33:28 dserver dovecot: pop3-login: Error: proxy(remotemail): Login for pop.gmail.com:995 timed out in state=0 (after 15 secs, local=162.106.yyy.zzz:59282)

Idle speculation, but remote port 995 usually means SSL type connection (i.e. dive right into SSL protocol), whereas "starttls=y" starts out in plaintext, and SSL negotiations starts after a STARTTLS directive.

Looking at

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy

methinks you want to replace "starttls=y" with "ssl=yes".

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>