Using the Boards with Thunderbird

How to use the boards in thunderbird (or, presumably any other client, but they're crap)

Connecting to Redbrick

To connect you have to forward a port as part of your ssh connection, so this will only work while your connected to redbrick. On redbrick, the only server that supports this is deathray, so you must connect to deathray first, and then you can ssh to murphy.

Linux/Unix/Mac

Normally to connect you would type something like

ssh username@login.redbrick.dcu.ie

Instead type

ssh -L 1119:carbon.internal:119 username@136.206.15.3

and you'll be prompted for your password like normal. To get onto murphy then just type

ssh murphy

If you're really cool and use gnome, you can setup a nice desktop launcher with this command

gnome-terminal --command="ssh -L 1119:carbon.internal:119 username@136.206.15.3" --hide-menubar

Windows

I'll write this later when I bother to find a windows pc.

Setting up Thunderbird

Go into account properties, select add account, pick newsgroup.
Enter your name, and your redbrick email address.
For Newsgroup server enter "localhost"

Once you've done all that all thats left to do is change from the default port to the one we've set up the forwarding on, so go into the settings for the account and change the 119 to 1119

To subscribe to boards, just click on "Manage Newsgroup subscriptions"

And thats it, happy posting.