POP3 Proxy to gmail

[MarkF]

HI

I'm currently testing WinGate for use in my house. I'm having trouble using the POP3 Proxy server to get to gmail. When testing the configuration in Outlook 2K7, it tries for about 30 seconds or so and then re-prompts for the username and password. During this time I can see an attempt in the GateKeeper activity log to connect to gmail.com.

For the username configured in Outlook, I've tried "user@gmail.com", "user@pop.gmail.com", "user@gmail.com:995" and "user@pop.gmail.com:995"... all without success.

How can I make this work?

Also, I don't see an SMTP proxy server ... how can gmail be sent using Outlook through Wingate which passes it on to smtp.gmail.com for delivery?

[adrien]

Hi

You only need to alter the username in your POP3 client (Outlook) if you set the POP3 server to be WinGate. If you still have it set to be the gmail server, then your username should just be the one you'd use if you were directly connecting.

Most people don't use the POP3 proxy as their POP3 server any more, but rely (if they want to use it at all) on it intercepting their connection, in which case the client needs to be configured for NAT.

To get outbound mail working, run the SMTP server in WinGate, and configure it to forward outbound mail to smtp.gmail.com.

* on delivery tab, select "deliver via gateway", and enter the gmail smtp server details.

Regards

Adrien

[MarkF]

Thanks adrien

The following setup is working:
Client default gateway is the Wingate server. In Outlook on the client, I simply added the email address @gmail.com and it worked. I didn't even need to do collection or special delivery.

This is exactly what I wanted :)