Accessing webmail behind a strict firewall

[Chrisp]

I have been using the cPanel Proxy scripts (http://cpanelproxy.net/) for a number of years. cPanel Proxy enables you to access your cPanel or Webmail through port 80 (http), rather than the usual port 2082 for cPanel and port 2095 for webmail - meaning you can access it through a strict firewall, such as from my place of work.

Background : How cPanel Proxy works:
It's really easy to install - just create the subdomains "cpanel" and "webmail" and copy the cPanel Proxy scripts into their respective folders (public_html/cpanel & public_html/webmail)

Then, by visiting http://cpanel.~yourdomain~.tld or http://webmail.~yourdomain~.tld you will be able to access these facilities via port 80, bypassing any a strict port blocking firewalls.

The Problem:
However, since the cPanel 11 upgrade, When I go to http://webmail.pratt.me.uk, it always tries to access http://webmail.pratt.me.uk:2095/ - Hence it gets blocked when i'm at work. Please PM me for details of a test account.

Interestingly though, using the cpanel subdomain takes me to cPanel through port 80 and I can access it at work with no problems at all!

Has anyone else had a similar problem? Do you use a different method to access your webmail from work? Has the webmail setup on the server changed during the upgrade?


Thanks in advance,

Chris

[jc8654]

There are a couple of ways I can think of which could work.

The first is use a proxy program. PHProxy is a program which you can put on a server which basically acts as your own proxy. You type a web address into the page and then it pulls it up for you. You can find information and a copy here:

http://whitefyre.com/poxy/

It's as simple as copying a few files across to the server and you're away.

I've got a copy on my account which I used to get round blocking on a firewall when I was browsing using my laptop on the move with 3G. I've also put it in a password protected directory so I'm the only one who can use it. It works fine for what I want.

The other option is use a website like www.mail2web.com which should work....

Anyway, hope that helps.

[Chrisp]

thanks for the info.

I've now worked around around my problem getting to webmail by logging in first, then jumping straight to the squirrel mail page (e.g. http://webmail.mysite.com/squirrelmail/src/webmail.php). This works in Firefox, but not IE (because IE is not remembering the login for whatever reason).

However, i shall certainly bare PHProxy in mind if i find that there are other websites that i want to access, around a firewall.

Cheers!

Chris

[bradmca]

Sounds great for getting around firewall port restrictions, but unfortunately that proxy script site is filtered out by my companies web blocker .

I shall have to wait until this evening to have a play with it