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Documentation

Access via SSH or SFTP

Nothing special here:

ssh you@ninthfloor.org

and

sftp you@ninthfloor.org

Check the fingerprint! It must be:

30:e3:63:3f:1c:62:0c:15:23:62:64:3e:71:82:21:93

Change password

Configure an email client

We run the SMTP, IMAP and POP3 servers on the standard ports. Tell your client to authenticate to the server and to use TLS encryption. The server's hostname is always ninthfloor.org. Your username and password are the ones you use when you log in via SSH.

Publish web pages

Create a folder named public_html in your home directory and put your files there. Both your home directory and public_html have to be world-executable (e.g. with mode 711, which is the default). The URL to your web space is:

http://users.ninthfloor.org/~you

or, more shortly,

http://you.ninth.su

Classify incoming mail

You can do that with the Sieve mail filtering language. There are two ways for using it. One is uploading your rules to the Managesieve server that runs together with the IMAP and POP3 servers. Obviously you need an appropriate client for this. You'll find many on http://sieve.info/clients. Username and password are your shell account ones, as usual.

The other option is to manually create the ~/.sieve file and put your Sieve script in there. Basically this is just what the Managesieve server does.

For documentation and example scripts browse http://sieve.info/.

Redirect incoming mail to another address

Even if we try to offer a very high quality email service, you may want to redirect all the emails sent to your @ninthfloor.org address to another address. This would be the case if you don't feel like checking the @ninthfloor.org address often, as this is the only address we will use to contact you in case of problems or important notifications.

Electronic mail is redirected with a simple Sieve script, for example you may put this code inside the ~/.sieve file:

redirect "you@example.com";
keep;

This redirects all your mail to you@example.com, while keeping a copy of it on the server (that's the final "keep;"). If you don't want to keep a local copy, use "stop;" instead of "keep;".

Set the correct timezone

By default the timezone is set to UTC, but you might prefer to see the time according to your local timezone. That's very easy: just run the tzselect command and follow the instructions.