Providing clients with webmail access via proxy?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:26 pm
I have a couple clients who are unable to access webmail through their current office web connections due to firewalls. They are unable or unwilling to get their local systems/IT staff to open up the necessary ports to access their webmail features hosted on sites on my reseller account at PriorityColo.
Is there a workaround that I can offer to these clients?
I tried to install cPanel Proxy, which supposedly creates a local proxy that users can access as though it is port 80. This seemed to have some effect (i.e. the client was able to get farther along towards logging in than before) but in the end, it still would not allow the user to log in.
Presumably, the use of cPanel Proxy opens up some security risks, especially given that it appears to be a bit old, now, but I was only looking for a temporary solution -- until such time as the client is in a different computing environment or is able to arrange for someone to punch a hole in their local firewall and/or provide a working proxy to bypass it.
Is there a way to offer the webmail service through port 80 to clients in this situation?
Phil.
Is there a workaround that I can offer to these clients?
I tried to install cPanel Proxy, which supposedly creates a local proxy that users can access as though it is port 80. This seemed to have some effect (i.e. the client was able to get farther along towards logging in than before) but in the end, it still would not allow the user to log in.
Presumably, the use of cPanel Proxy opens up some security risks, especially given that it appears to be a bit old, now, but I was only looking for a temporary solution -- until such time as the client is in a different computing environment or is able to arrange for someone to punch a hole in their local firewall and/or provide a working proxy to bypass it.
Is there a way to offer the webmail service through port 80 to clients in this situation?
Phil.