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Gmail and VPNs

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Hi, lm currently having an issue with regards to Gmail and my VPN.. basically l have 4 accounts (two of which are shared with other family members) every time l login to gmail l get asked to change my password if its done through my VPN which can be problematic.

So l was wondering if there were a way to use a third party software such as thunderbird to bypass my VPN (l use PureVPN) or a way to keep my access consistent to one point of access so when l start setting my VPN to autoconnect at bootup that l wont get asked to change my password every time l login from a different IP when l connect to the VPN.

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, lm currently having an issue with regards to Gmail and my VPN.. basically l have 4 accounts (two of which are shared with other family members) every time l login to gmail l get asked to change my password if its done through my VPN which can be problematic. So l was wondering if there were a way to use a third party software such as thunderbird to bypass my VPN (l use PureVPN) or a way to keep my access consistent to one point of access so when l start setting my VPN to autoconnect at bootup that l wont get asked to change my password every time l login from a different IP when l connect to the VPN. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

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There is nothing Thunderbird can do for you. It supports proxy, which might help. But what I really suspect you need is a VPN that supports split tunnel, which many corporate VPN do not do.

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my VPN does support split tunneling, but its annoying having to start up the app each time to open my browser, however l have been thinking using a proxy was the way forward.

the problem is setting up that access without spending money.. my friend does have a server which so l guess lm going to have to speak to the server tech to set up a proxy to allow such access so l can push emails through the proxy server to get around the annoyance of emails.