Hi All,
We are using squid along with squidguard to block the websites. Now due to company policy we've blocked all the email sites with squidguard blacklist, wherein we've also blocked gmail.google.com Now, our company has purchesed domain name specific mail address from google. for example mail.ourdomain.com, wherein if anyone types mail.ourdomain.com it will be redirected to ourdoman specific gmail. The problem here is as squidguard is blocking gmail.google.com and which is inturn backbehind mail.ourdomain.com, the users are not able to access that site. What we want to do now is, we still want to block gmail access, but if someone goes thru mail.ourdomain.com, then he should get the access to gmail. How can we achieve this?
Few more bits about our squid. It is configured in non-transperant mode. i.e. we mannually provide the proxy to users. Also its in non-authentication mode. i.e. it does not checks for username/password.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Hi, the links to the personal domain in google.com/a is "mail.google.com/a/<your url>" i dont have much idea about Squid but i think this will help u .
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, sameer shinde s9sameer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
We are using squid along with squidguard to block the websites. Now due to company policy we've blocked all the email sites with squidguard blacklist, wherein we've also blocked gmail.google.com Now, our company has purchesed domain name specific mail address from google. for example mail.ourdomain.com, wherein if anyone types mail.ourdomain.com it will be redirected to ourdoman specific gmail. The problem here is as squidguard is blocking gmail.google.com and which is inturn backbehind mail.ourdomain.com, the users are not able to access that site. What we want to do now is, we still want to block gmail access, but if someone goes thru mail.ourdomain.com, then he should get the access to gmail. How can we achieve this?
Few more bits about our squid. It is configured in non-transperant mode. i.e. we mannually provide the proxy to users. Also its in non-authentication mode. i.e. it does not checks for username/password.
Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Hi All,
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Abhishek abhishekworld@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, the links to the personal domain in google.com/a is "mail.google.com/a/<your url>" i dont have much idea about Squid but i think this will help u .
You are right abhishek, that's the keypoint in blocking and unblocking in squid. Actually even I was working on the same line and I did it.
The difference between the general users access and domain specific access here is the difference the link for gmail for general users is mail.google.com/mail/------ and for domain specific users it is mail.google.com/a/ourdomain/----
so what one has to do is, restrict the access on url base instead of domain based. i.e. block the access to url mail.google.com/mail and this makes a magic.
Now if you try to access gmail as a normal user, it will not work, but if you access gmail under your domain it will work.
This info is for them who wants to tryout this.
anyways, thanks abhishek.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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