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After finding out that my cPanel mail ports are blocked at college, I decided to set up a proxy to work around this (I can use both sides of my brain you know! :D)

This however proved harder than I thought it would be. I started off with cPanel proxy, and uploadable file that uses subdomains to hide the port numbers. However, after installing and testing, I found all this actually did was redirect to the port after login, which is basically what I’ve already done - therefore, I doubt this will work at college (haven’t yet tested).

I therefore decided to go for another proxy option - using CGI scripts. I chose CGIProxy as it says you can also login to other sites without restriction (other GCI/PHP scripts probably do this too, but oh well…) So it’s all installe, and I’ve set up a the address as a password protected directory from inside cPanel, but once I actually get down to what I want to do, check email through the proxy, I find it is incredibly slow at loading the inbox so this probably isn’t such a fantastic idea as it seemed.

Then I decided to see what other alternatives there were - finding Zelune. This boasts to be the fastest proxy on the internet, and faster than others because it uses cURL rather than PHP or CGI. But of course, this doesn’t work properly either when I log into my emails - I get a 404 error page! Great!

I’ve yet to find a viable alternative to the above - the first method MIGHT work in college, but it’s debatable. The second is extremely slow but does work - if I can be bothered to wait 10 minutes to load up an inbox. The third probably doesn’t work at all on my email, anywhere!

The choice of useful proxies seems incredible…

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