title: How to access IMAP email through an email proxy server
body: <p>I'm not 100% certain how to phrase the question, so let me start with what I'm trying to do and the barriers:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Goal:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Read/Answer mail from "another account" in GMail by adding a new email account into gmail</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Won't work:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Forwarding email from "another account" to a new gmail account and then changing the "reply-to" label. it looks ugly on the receiving end and does not sync up sent messages.  I've tried this.  It works 'ok', just not the idea solution</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Barrier to success</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>"another account" doesn't have open/external POP3 or IMAP interfaces.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Available to me</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>IMAP service enabled on the other account, <em>but only available through VPN</em>.  So while on VPN I can actually access the other account with Outlook via IMAP.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Theoretical plan</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Run a pc 24/7 logged in to the VPN and has visibility to the IMAP</li>
  <li>Run some kind of Mail Relay Proxy Server thing-a-ma-bop  (?!)</li>
  <li>Point GMail to above "mail server"</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Is there something that works like #2 above? I have no idea how to search for it. Maybe it's a combo of things?  Some kind of setup of WinProxy, javamail and ... ?  No idea if this is even possible.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>More searching, found <a href="http://www.freepops.org/en/" rel="nofollow">"FreePOPs"</a>, but it's not quite there, sounds like what I might need.  FreePOPs connects to webmails, and my account does have it, but... it's Lotus iNotes and FreePOPs doesn't seem to support it.</p>
  
  <p>1) Do you know how to make FreePOPs support lotus inotes?
  2) Or, is there another product like FreePOPs that's an "email relay" and a pop3 daemon?</p>