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.
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
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
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.