Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-29 Thread Pete Gregory
Laurent proclaimed: Thanks, Gavin! I tried getting to the IP addresses directly, but they must have done something because they are also blocked. I'll see if I could use VNC, but I doubt it will work. If you know Fannie Mae, you understand that they are very sensitive to the outside world and

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-28 Thread Gavin Tiplady
Hi Laurent, ssh: connect to host permanentmailbox.com port 22: Operation timed out yes that looks like port 22 is blocked. So regarding your related post about the URL containing 'mail' - have you tried just using the IP address of the web site's host in your browser request? i.e. Name:

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-28 Thread Gavin Tiplady
Two other ideas.. 1) auto forward your mail from home to work (not that private though). 2) try VNC (they MIGHT not have closed its ports, you never know) to connect to your home computer and just operate it by remote control to read and reply to the mail IT has received. -- G-Books is

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-28 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 28/02/04 04:33, Gavin Tiplady at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Laurent, ssh: connect to host permanentmailbox.com port 22: Operation timed out yes that looks like port 22 is blocked. So regarding your related post about the URL containing 'mail' - have you tried just using the

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-28 Thread James Rohde
On 2/28/04, Gavin Tiplady wrote: If you have a Unix account on any box outside your firewall that CAN get to the mail server, and to which to you can make an ssh connection, ... snip ... All built into Mac OS X, but if you're not using a Mac inside the firewall, but a Windows box, you can

[OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-27 Thread Laurent Daudelin
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

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-27 Thread Thomas Ethen
you should work at a High School where you are not allowed to type in any portion of any banned word while accessing the internet. That makes it pretty entertaining, considering the name of the school is one of those words. Tom on 2/27/04 12:09, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-27 Thread Gavin Tiplady
Laurent, If you have a Unix account on any box outside your firewall that CAN get to the mail server, and to which to you can make an ssh connection, then you could set up a secure tunnel from your Mac to that box, and read your mail as if it was served on your Mac. Once you have the

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-27 Thread Laurent Daudelin
Gavin, Thanks very much for this thorough explanation. I appreciate your time. However, I don't think it will work because they're also blocking all outside ports. Port 80 and the port used for ftp are opened, but I doubt they let any outgoing traffic on any other port. We really feel like in a

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-27 Thread Gavin Tiplady
mmm... certainly makes it a bit more of a challenge :-) Have you tried to make an outgoing ssh connection anyway? You might be pleasantly surprised. Try this in Terminal: ssh permanentmailbox.com That will try to go to my home network here: if you get a login prompt - or something showing

Re: [OT] Problem accessing email behind firewall

2004-02-27 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 27/02/04 17:22, Gavin Tiplady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mmm... certainly makes it a bit more of a challenge :-) Have you tried to make an outgoing ssh connection anyway? You might be pleasantly surprised. Try this in Terminal: ssh permanentmailbox.com That will try to go to my