[MlMt] VPN conflicts

[Peter Borsella]

Hello, Rob,

I’m not much of a network engineer, so I’m expecting I’ll need to 
explore more about what’s going on as I simultaneously learn.  I’m 
encouraged that you find it surprising that I’m having difficulty with 
my VPN, having thought it was “normal.”

I’m using the PIA (Private Internet Access) tool.  And, my problem is 
indeed related to outbound traffic, with Mailmate telling me that it 
can’t send messages, leaving them for re-attempts in my Draft folder.  
I then turn on the VPN, close Mailmate, launch again, the mail goes out 
without a hitch.

If there’s any more details I can provide to assist in trouble 
shooting this, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Peter

On 23 Sep 2019, at 9:25, Rob Willett via mailmate wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Your issue is very unlikely to be Mailmate, but rather how your VPN is 
> configured. I have 3 VPN providers as I have to have specific ones for 
> specific clients.
>
> Things that come to mind:
>
> 1,	As people have already said DNS may be one issue. You already have 
> suggestions for this.
> 2.	It may block outgoing traffic. You need to provide more information 
> on the VPN you use to know if this is an issue.
> 3.	You may your VPN doing some odd routing, so that stuff that should 
> be internal is going externally. Unlikely but seen it happen.
>
> Your comment that using a VPN and having expected issues is not what I 
> would expect at all. I would expect configuration issues with 
> Tunnelblck (which for some reason hates me, mind you I hate it), but 
> we use hardwired versions of that as well as Bitdefender and 
> Viscosity. I like Viscosity :)
>
> More information helps here.
>
> Rob
>
> On 23 Sep 2019, at 14:08, Peter Borsella wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response.  I’m not familiar with using this 
>> DNS, but now have something to research.
>>
>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 9:01, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>>> You may want to try using a different DNS provider when tunneling 
>>> over VPN, like Google’s 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 for example. Some VPN 
>>> services have their own DNS as an option as well.
>>>
>>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 14:41, Peter Borsella wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good Day, All,
>>>> I am using a VPN tool on my Mac, and have experienced as might be 
>>>> expected that emails do not flow with the VPN active.  However, are 
>>>> there any settings or workarounds that would still allow me to keep 
>>>> my VPN turned on while exchanging emails?
>>>> Thanks...Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Peter Borsella, President
>>>> **Winnow Management**
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