Ways around a webmail ban at work?

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So my workplace has banned webmail. The email bits of Lycos, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc are all no-nos, does anyone know any little-known email services that might have slipped through the net? Or if not, what other possible ways are there of getting typed words to people NOT using work email? I'm considering starting a blog for it, and giving the password to the mailee so we can post our words (not sure if blogger.com is banned too though). I don't like the lack of security of this though, any better ideas?

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

a web proxy?

http://www.proxify.com

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

grafitti.net used to have an email service that did an end around some of that stuff, but usually all those things work for only a very short time before your IT staff figures it out and blocks them too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

proxify's blocked at my work.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Quit your job?

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Do some work?

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Dean's obviously management material :-)

Webmail (including POP and IMAP) is a no-no at our workplace too. I ssh (secure telnet) to my unix shell account at my ISP and read mail using a unix mail reader. Since the mail sits on the ISP's box, there's no way the nasty stuff (viruses, worms) can get to your work network. The readers are text-only, but if any worthwhile attachments come along, just forward them along to your work account.

Most ISP's don't even offer shell access anymore, but if all else fails, Panix offers no-dialup shell for $100/year (and there may be other cheaper shell options that I don't know about.)

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

I've had some success using sites like babelfish.altavista that will translate web pages from you. You can select the option to convert any language to english which should have no effect on your english page and may trick your IT setup. Unfortunately, this can show up as "proxy avoidance" at times, so it's mostly luck.

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

truthmail.com is pretty good. You can have yourname@iservejesus.com free of charge.

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Math.com has a little known free and cool sounding email.
highly reccomended

― Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

i've used crapmail.com in the past - yeah yeah, so far, so undergrad - cos it's well obscure and thus under my office's radar. but really, it's a tough call.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

crapmail, math.com, the proxify thing - all banned here but thankfully graffiti.net escaped the purge. thanks for the suggestions, esp Alex in SF.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

give me your email password and i'll log in and copy and paste all your emails here so you can read them?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I've just signed up to flickr and, if I understand correctly, they give you an email address - maybe that's an alternative?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

ha, ken thanks but mmm no ta.

flickr seems to work too so i'll move on to that when/if graffiti.net gets banned. just realised that trusty old friendster is also an option.

― Affectian (Affectian), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

http://abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

ought to do the trick

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

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