Tired of your office or school officials blocking Gmail? In today's How To section, we give you a sure shot, step by step guide on How to unblock Gmail.
The whole idea began when Google decided to give Gmail as an addon in iGoogle. When you add the Gmail gadget to igoogle, all your mails are routed through the igoogle address (google.com) instead of gmail.com, thereby defeating all filters that block gmail.com domain. So unless your office/school have blocked google.com, this method should work for you.
Here is what you should do:
- Sign in to iGoogle with your Google account.
- Signup for iGoogle Sandbox.
The new version of iGoogle which supports Gmail is offered only in iGoogle sandbox, which is aimed at developers testing out the new iGoogle gadgets. However, you too can use it by signing up here.
Enter your First Name, Last Name and email address and hit Submit. You'll be taken to the new iGoogle page. - Add the Gmail gadget.
Click on Add Stuff on top right hand corner of the screen, and add the Gmail gadget. - There is no fourth step. You're done.
If everything went correct, your Gmail inbox will be seen on the iGoogle home page. Click on any email to open it in full screen.
Currently, the iGoogle Gmail gadget provides options to read, compose and archieve your mails, but Labels are not supported.
So what do you think of this post? Did it work for you? Or did your system administrator read this post much before you did? Tell us about it in the comments.
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27 Responses to Access Gmail Even When It Is Blocked [How To]
Yeah, works for me :)
Thanks Anoop...
Is there a way to get chat inside gmail too? :D
ATOzTOA,
good to know that it helped you :) keep reading.
Great stuff, however, gmail can also be accessed by forwarding option, and/or operamini :-)
Is there any way to use the gtalk ?
It works for me too.. 2 notes though.
1. Compose doesn't format the HTML right. it sends the text as HTML, mushing everything into 1 paragraph.
2. It strips out all links in the messages when viewing.
If you go to https://mail.google.com this will also bypass the denied access..... 1 step
good job. by posting this you have jeopardized the whole operation.
First rule of iGoogle, you dont talk about iGoogle.
Second rule of iGoogle, YOU DONT TALK ABOUT IGOOGLE!!!!!
@Pranav Prakash,
Forwarding your gmail mails to other emails works one way. But how do you send a mail from Gmail? (Other than giving your password into opera mini)
@AJ,
Really sorry to publish this :) Hope your sys-admin doesn't read this :)
Why would you post this! Now we need to find another way! You cut me deep shrek.
Awesome. works great. Now, to be able to reply to emails ...
To the people wanting Google Talk, try this: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=Google+Talk&root=%2Fig&dpos=top&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/googletalk.xml
To the people wanting Google Talk, try this: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=Google+Talk&root=%2Fig&dpos=top&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/googletalk.xml
I hated the new igoogle interface... until now.
great - now this will get blocked as well. Why would you publish this?
@Quicksilver_Johny,
Sure you can add Gtalk to your iGoogle page, but it get blocked by the filters.
For this to work, Google should create a Gtalk iGoogle gadget that will take the data through google.com domain instead of directly communicating with the gtalk servers.
Hi Anoop
Yeah you are correct.. If you can pls inform this to google..Is there a way to communicate with google guys or put some comments?
Anyway thx for the information keep up the good work
Pathum
From
Sri Lanka
There are places that block Google? People are messed up these days...
@above post,
no I don't think anyone blocks google.com.
But I do know of a lot of places where gmail.com or mail.google.com is blocked :)
Sad
How can i Obtain Sky mail Without going through the sky web page
(to Longwinded)
This is very nice!
I noticed these:
- you can Read but cannot Reply/Forward the messages
- the message you Compose and send do not appear in the 'Sent Mail'
- the messages w/o body (just Subject) are not sent
You can also try accessing it via m.gmail.com.
If gmail.com is blocked, m.gmail.com will most probably be blocked too.
Hey there was a reply option when I posted this one. It seems Google removed it later. May be they are experimenting something with it
If gmail is blocked through, this method will only list the mails, but yo wont be able to open mails.
@abhishek bhatnagar,
You ought to be able to read full mails using this method.
Is it not working for you? Because it is working for a lot many people.
how to access gmail chat when it's blocked in an organization??
Unfortunately, my large corporate company squashed this method in early June. No Gmail for me, I guess.
This sounds great for the end user but as a network admin that has to deal with HIPPA issues it's a nightmare.
it now lists the mails , but when i want to read them it opens a new window that is then blocked. That desn't help much
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