Accessing Thunderbird email in terminal

[Dotan Cohen]

On 1/16/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >
> >> If you have X forwarding enabled, you could run Thunderbird on your
> >> home machine, and have the display on the university machine. You
> >> do need an X server running on the university machine. If you are
> >> running Windows, there are some Java X servers you can run, ether
> >> in a web browser, or as a Windows program. I remember running
> >> across a couple that included SSH to connect to the remote machine.
> >>
> >> Mikkel
> >
> >
> > Sorry to barge in Mikkel, but you know me, I do these things... :)
> >
> > When you ran across the Java one (the web browser version intrigues me),
> > did you remember/note down a link/name?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ed.
> >
> One that I have played with a bit is weirdx. I set up a web page to
> use it on my local network, but you could have it on a pen drive or
> floppy. I know there were others, but I don't have the bookmarks
> here.
>
> http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/
>
> Mikkel

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
http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_is_hdtv.html
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