From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86899 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus on the web? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:02:39 -0800 Message-ID: <56C82BAF.5020205@niwas.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455959039 31130 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 09:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:03:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M35121@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 20 10:03:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aX3S7-0002pO-04 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:03:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1aX3RR-000846-2d; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:03:05 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1aX3RN-00083E-FB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:03:01 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aX3RL-00076i-BD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:03:01 -0600 Original-Received: from sender153-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.153]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aX3RJ-0000Dy-5o for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:02:57 +0100 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=zapps768; d=zoho.com; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:sender; b=FbEvq/ViRNeSOMgbu6A5B4Br4hrCibooKX3GpvR/NTNpvKIxrymVt6/tR9YezrRIVaudRIqMG6XY bEwEojkRE4FuBae/pU/h3QsThyXRFi6jkT5lzOErFrFAkNzZoTcr Original-Received: from [192.168.10.212] (web325.webfaction.com [95.211.73.1]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1455958971871957.2016841566632; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:02:51 -0800 (PST) X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: X-Zoho-Virus-Status: 1 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86899 Archived-At: On 02/19/2016 11:44 PM, Steinar Bang wrote: > After a firewall policy change at work, I am without access to Gmane at > work. I can't even SSH out to run Gnus on a different machine. > > But HTTP and HTTPS are open, and web browsers can be used to surf the > internet. > > I have been pondering to install some webmail solution on my mail > server, but: > 1. All of the webmails I have tried have had a user interface I don't > like (and also unfamiliar) > 2. Existing webmail systems won't give me NNTP access to Gmane > > So: would it be possible to create a web service that could run Gnus in > a web browser? MindTerm might help: https://www.cryptzone.com/products/secure-access/mindterm That'll give you a terminal in a web browser. Or why not just put your sshd on port 80 or 443? Then you can just ssh in. > The user experience could be similar to what I get from ssh or mosh. > That would be good enough just to check my email, and check for > responses to Gmane group postings. > > (On the other hand... maybe a slight disconnection from the net will do > me good...) > Once ya' get the shakes, y'll be back! > - Steinar /D