I've been trying out different VPNs lately to move away from my economical "life-time subscription" VPN and try something quicker. My latest attempt and one which I enjoyed greatly was ExpressVPN, at first, but then I ran into issues:

The first was that whenever the VPN was active, Opera wouldn't load any website I pointed it to, always saying "This site cannot be reached". It was a problem unique to Opera, as Firefox Quantum, TOR, and Chromium both run fine whether ExpressVPN is on or off. I recently attempted it on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install on my HP laptop and it worked fine, so I'm not too worried about that as it's probably manageable. Including this information for the sake of completeness.

The bigger problem is that Mailspring will not work for me while the VPN is connected, but will work when disconnected. Specifically, I get the error: "Mailspring is offline. Reconnecting in Xs", where X is the number of seconds until it retries and refails. None of my connected accounts use SMTP port 25 as I have seen suggested in several places including from ExpressVPN support, and I know for sure that even on my fresh machine, with the only Mailspring account connected using 587 instead of 25 for SMTP, it will still not work.

When using mailspring with my other VPN (VPNSecure), it has always worked with no problem whatsover. I have not had much success with their support team yet, so I was wondering if anybody here happened to use both of those products with success? Thanks for any help ahead of time, please inform me if I'm wrong for putting this under "Linux - Newbie".

I think, and I do not see why not, one could not set up there very own VPN "server" to "hide" their IP.


I am not sure if that is of any help, but with Linux being a server, one should be able by some means set up there own VPN service, I would think, as these links suggest.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-...x-62e1a93d04f3

https://www.howtogeek.com/221001/how...me-vpn-server/

https://hide.me/en/vpnsetup/ubuntu/openvpn/

then if it is yours, I too would think you can set up your mailspring, and whatever else to side track it, would not IP or port numbers be involved in this endeavor? Or maybe a firewall or routing table that directs your mailspring to side track your vpn to get out. for what little bit of networking I do know about.

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