[Openvpn-users] Road Warrior email sending

[Jeff B. <jb...@me...>]

Greetings -

I just set up my first road warrior openvpn laptop client and am having one 
minor problem with regards to emailing.  The client is running Windows Vista 
and Openvpn 2.0.9.  The server is RedHat Linux also running Openvpn 2.0.9. 
>From a public access wifi point, the client is able to access the internet 
and remotely access the office Samba server running on the same box as 
Openvpn.  They are also able to receive email through their standard Windows 
Mail client program.  However, they are unable to send mail from the Windows 
Mail client program.  When this laptop is in the office and is connected to 
the local network, sending and receiving mail works correctly through the 
Windows mail client.  I am assuming that I need to make some change in the 
laptops Openvpn configuration file, or a routing tweak.  How do other part 
time road warriors set up their system so that email works the same whether 
in the office, or outside with remote access?  I tried adding 
redirect-gateway to the laptop config file, but the only effect of that was 
to disable receiving emails.  Additional details of my network and client 
are listed below.  Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide.

Office internet connection provided through Qwest DSL.
Outgoing mail uses local Qwest mail server (pop.sttl.qwest.net)

Laptop Client Config.
client
dev tun
proto udp
remote aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd 1194
pull
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
tls-client
ca "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\ca.crt"
cert "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\laptop.crt"
key "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\laptop.key"
ns-cert-type server
resolv-retry infinite
comp-lzo
route-method exe
route-delay 2
verb 4


Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com