[clue-tech] Presentation on Ubunto/Debian?

Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 22:46:54 MDT 2005


On 6/2/05, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> The only disadvantage I can see is if some over-zealous "security" type
> at my company or any employer further down the line decides they're
> God's gift to network security because he knows how to filter out
> gmail.com at some proxy or similar.

http://gmail.google.com is blocked at my current work site, but
https://gmail.google.com works just fine.  Go figure...

> 
> I like to check my personal mail once in a while from work using a
> normal mail client, and having one's own server with a multitude of ways
> of getting to it that will bypass even the smartest of outbound firewall
> filtering is kinda nice sometimes.

Well, if you can ssh somewhere, I can attest that gmail now works with
text mode browsers like links.  Not as great as it works in
Firefox...but it works.

Greg



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