Originally Posted by wetkarma
2. Use a tunnel. Configure an ssh and proxy server on your home machine. Establish an ssh connect from your work machine to your home machine, forwarding all web connections through the tunnel on the port the proxy server is listening.
If you can't get them to give you permission to access your web mail, then the above is the best overall solution and the only general one. They will be able to tell that you're making an outbound ssh connection but they won't be able to see what you're doing with it.
They can shut down your ssh port of course but you can just switch to a different one. If they start playing whack a mole with you then forget it, you're not going to win and you probably WILL get in trouble. But then again if they spend their time on that they are psychos who need their heads examined. @:-)
/pbz