After much testing, I've finally deployed a Sugar CRM installation on our office intranet - only to find it isn't working as it should.

The problem is the email functionality. The system requires IMAP connections to my web server hosted overseas, which was fine and well while I was testing over a Vodacom 3G connection. However, the office intranet connects to the big wide world via Telkom ADSL, and IMAP traffic is so deprioritised the gateway keeps timing out (even at a 1 minute setting, which is a lifetime in IT terms).

Burn Telkom, Burn

Ordinarily I could just deploy Sugar on the webserver, but I need it hosted on the intranet for a bridge to our financial system. And apart from the security issues, I expect even more problems trying to bridge the two db's via the internet.

Any ideas on a workaround?