We, being in “huge” service companies, suffer a lot in terms of online freedom. I used to get very frustrated initially when I joined, since all the sites on which I used to hangout were blocked!. Patiently, I started cracking(without using proxies) case after case and now, I have workarounds for all my fave hangouts.
However, today I am going post 2 simple techniques to access GMail(read-only).
1) Use GMail’s inbuilt forwarding facility: This is the simplest thing to do, just use the forwarding feature of GMail to forward all your GMails to corporate mail ID. Just go to settings in GMail and check out the pic below.
Ofcourse this is not the best way to read your personal mail, since your sys-ads might just sneak into your personal mails, and some companies might take offence. Nevertheless its practical.
2) RSS your GMail: That’s right, you can publish your GMail and access it from your favorite RSS reader be it bloglines , newsgator etc etc!. You need to add a subscription as the following in your RSS reader
https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
Thats about it! you will start receiving all your mails into your RSS news reader. However, the funniest thing about this technique is that, Google Reader itself doesn’t support https RSS feed yet. :) .
These are the basic 2 techniques which just cannot be blocked. There many other techniques to access the site, but they are specific to a company’s proxy.
For ex: One technique is, assuming you are behind a fire wall, you shouldn’t use your company proxy for SSL sites(change this in browser settings), so that, when you type “https://mail.google.com” you get direct access to GMail.
And then of course, there are sites like www.fuser.com which keep cropping up in this too-much-of-web 2.0 world, where in you can aggragate not just GMail, but many others too.
Happy work around-ing !
PS: do let me know if you have any more fool proof - work arounds
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