Re: [NTLK] [OT] Problem acessing email behind firewall

From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 12:11:58 PST


On Feb 27, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:

>
> On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> The security folks here again have strike: I can no longer use
>> mail2web to
>> read my personal email form behind the firewall. I can not even get my
>> mail
>> using the Verizon web site, so they're not only blocking some specific
>> sites
>> (although it could still be possible), but I think they're blocking
>> something in the TCP/IP request.
This seems impossible to me. SInce you are trying to read via a
webpage, and port 80 is open, it must be something else going on.
>>
>> Anybody knows a workaround, besides finding another job?
>>
>
> An ssh tunnel from work over port 80 to someone who will forward that
> to your mail will do it
If he can't read his mail from a web page then there must be some other
issue, since that also is port 80, presumably?

You could try port scanning your incoming mail server to see which
ports are actually open... Then if you have control of this you could
select a (non-standard) but open one.

Sort of sounds like there might just be an issue with the mail
altogether. Maybe it will fix itself?

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