hotmail through the firewall?

[kramer]

Ok whats the easiest/safest way of accessing my hotmail through the firewall?
I am aware of the free proxies... which is the most legit?

[DaveB]

Ok whats the easiest/safest way of accessing my hotmail through the firewall?
I am aware of the free proxies... which is the most legit?

The easiest way is to run your own proxy on a box at home. If they have done it peoperly and implemented URL filtering as well then all the decent public proxies will be blocked as well.

Squid is probably the best and runs on windows or linux and is free. Minimal configuration needed and does exactly what it is supposed to.

[Ardesco]

Or run your own mail server with your own domain. most company firewalls wont be set up to exclude it because its just your box.

[DaveB]

Or run your own mail server with your own domain. most company firewalls wont be set up to exclude it because its just your box.

Depends on how thorough they have been. If they've done it right then external SMTP / POP traffic will only be allowed to/from the mail server itself and not from anywhere else.

[Ardesco]

make sure you have a webmail front end as well then, or open a non standard port, etc.

I'm not saying that companies can't shut it down, just that if you have your own one the chances are they won't have locked out every avenue of access and it is unlikely to be blacklisted by thier firewall software automatically.

[DaveB]

make sure you have a webmail front end as well then, or open a non standard port, etc.

I'm not saying that companies can't shut it down, just that if you have your own one the chances are they won't have locked out every avenue of access and it is unlikely to be blacklisted by thier firewall software automatically.

Sure, but he wants access to hotmail and not his own domain. If you want to got o the expense of setting up your own domain and hosting it at home thats fine but setting up a proxy is a lot faster and easier than building a reliable mail server and web front end. having the proxy also lets you go to all those other places the co. doesnt want you to as well as hotmail

[Ardesco]

Yes that's true, but where else would you want to go??? It's not like you have time to read and post on forums when you are working at a clients site is it.....

[DaveB]

Yes that's true, but where else would you want to go??? It's not like you have time to read and post on forums when you are working at a clients site is it.....

Well for a start you could see all the piccies in Test Please Delete without them being blocked

Of course the other sure fire way around it is to be the security manager responcible for configuring the firewall etc in the first place and have a few little backdoors in place for specific internal IP addresses. Not that I would do anysuch thing you understand

[Ardesco]

I find that knowing the domain admin passwords can be useful :P

[ratewhore]

I find that knowing the domain admin passwords can be useful :P

Ah - in which case you need a security professional to create the holistic security architecture. I'm available for a costly fee, after all, security is where it's at...