-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: E883A005 https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpekPIACgkQ7yMg/OiDoAW9CgCdHPT2jQ6o4i/Mo5Zg/kDoX/4K VBEAnjbR2D7Sq97FHe6mwcWz/tt1wGaf =oRKn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----