SNMP connections to servers.

SNMP connections are used to send mail from your machine to someone else via one the the EECS servers. Although you can send mail to anyone on one of our servers without any type of identification from your end, using one of our servers to send mail to a different machine requires your login and password on the server you are using as a relay.

EECS has two servers to connect to, prime.cs.ohio.edu and oucsace.cs.ohio.edu, each with its own database of user login IDs and passwords. These are the connonical names of the machines - that is, these are the names that the machines think of themselves. oucsace has an alias of ace for easier typing, and both machines are reachable via the cs, ece and eecs subdomains, in both ohio.edu and ohio.edu domains. However, you should use the connonical names of prime.cs.ohio.edu and oucsace.cs.ohio.edu when accessing these machines to avoid problems with security certificates.

Setting Up Thunderbird To Send MAil

Thunderbird is the mail client from Netscape/Mozilla. To configure Thunderbird to send mail via an EECS server, you would normally configure the Thunderbird program to read mail on that machine via IMAP or POP. This will create an entry in the account tables for the outgoing (SMTP) server. However, this is not created as a secure connection. Since you will be entering your login and password, you should edit the SMTP server parameters to connect via SSL. To do this, right click on your account in the left hand pane of the Tunderbird display, and then select Outgoing Server (SMPT). select Edit from the selections on the right hand side of the screen. Select the SSL button on the bottom of the screen and click OK.

Test the connection to send a message to someone. This will probably fail with an odd error message. This is most likely due to the security certificate on the server being a "self signed certificate." To correct this problem, make the Tools selection from the top menu, then select the Advanced tab, and then the Cerficates tab below that one. Now select View Certificates. This will bring up another window. In this window select Web Sites. Select the entry for prime or oucsace, and then click Import. on Security and the list of accounts via the File -> New -> Account selection from the top menu. Select "Email account" and press Next.

Fill in the forms are required, using the server name of either oucsace.cs.ohio.edu or prime.cs.ohio.edu as desired. Note that you can have your email address be in the cs, eecs or ece sub-domains of the ohio.edu or ohio.edu domains, but you must use the two names as shown above for your smp server name. Also select IMAP as the protocol you wish to use.