Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Jan 16 22:30:37 UTC 2006
Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> I have signed up and set up the weirdX service, at least up to step 4
> in the Howto:
> http://wiredx.net/howto.php?howto=wiredx
>
> Now, I go to the wife's Windows XP Home box, and try to telnet into
> the Fedora box like step four suggests, but I am told that the
> connection on port 23 has failed. So I try to ssh in- but does Windows
> know what the 'f~ck' | sed -e 's/~/u/' SSH is? Of course not! But as
> my intent was to get in via a _browser_ in the first place, I type the
> Fedora box's IP into the browser on the Winbox, both with :0 and with
> :2 on the end, as suggested by the weirdX documentation. Otherwise
> apache will answer. But this failed, with the message that Firefox was
> unable to make contact with the service requested (translated from
> Hebrew error message).
>
> Am I going about this all wrong?
>
> I know that this may not be the best place to ask, but weirdX does not
> seem to have any mailing lists nor forums. Thanks in advance for any
> pointers.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
If you are going to use wiredx, I think you need to use a separate
SSH program, such as PuTTY. Weirdx is susposed to be able to do ssh
connections directly, but I am in the process of making it work.
Mikkel
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