The Meebo site is blocked. They're also blocking Yahoo and Gmail.

Stig - yes, it's to prevent employees from sharing information like trade secrets outside their company. Their own email is all logged so it can be tracked. This is pretty typical in a lot of large companies.

So yes, there's a reason. Now, consider this... If I'm asking, it's because I have a reason to want to get around it. And on top of getting around it, I want it to be encrypted so no one (else) from that company can see what is being discussed via that channel.

The OTR proxy software itself is very under-developed and can't reconfigure its ports. Unfortunately it wants access to 8080 which I'm already using on the server for something else.