External access
Electronic mail
Regarding email addresses, our user community is split into two halves, those with "@roe.ac.uk" addresses and those with "@stfc.ac.uk" addresses. See the phone list for details. Mailing lists hosted at ROE are in a separate domain "@lists.roe.ac.uk".
Junk e-mail (spam) is not welcome at our site; please refrain from sending or forwarding such messages to our users. We may reject or silently suppress e-mail by a variety of criteria. If you experience problems sending genuine e-mail to our users, try to report this to postmaster@roe.ac.uk; such messages are not subject to most of the anti-spam checks. If this does not succeed, contact your correspondent at our site by other means so that they can report the problem to IT Support.
Executable attachments - including viruses - are not welcome at our site. Such messages may be dropped silently. If you have genuine reason to send executable files, please encode these into archive formats, such as .tar, .tgz, .zip etc. before attaching them to your message. Also explain in the plain-text part of your message what the attachments are and why you send them. Our users are advised not to open unexpected attachments.
The table shows details for mail user agent configuration for our users.
| SMTP server | smtp.roe.ac.uk:25 |
| roe.ac.uk IMAP server | imap.roe.ac.uk:143 |
| stfc.ac.uk IMAPS server | imap.stfc.ac.uk:993 |
| roe.ac.uk webmail server | https://webmail.roe.ac.uk |
| stfc.ac.uk webmail server | https://webmail.stfc.ac.uk |
Web servers
| Server | URL |
|---|---|
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh | http://www.roe.ac.uk/ |
| UK Astronomy Technology Centre | http://www.roe.ac.uk/atc/ |
| Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | http://www.roe.ac.uk/ifa/ |
| Royal Observatory Visitor Centre | http://www.roe.ac.uk/vc/ |
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh TWiki webs | https://forge.roe.ac.uk/ |
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh Software Forge | https://forge.roe.ac.uk/ |
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh mailing lists | https://lists.roe.ac.uk/ |
FTP server
There is a general FTP server. Remote access to this is anonymous-only and read-only:
| Server | URL |
|---|---|
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh | ftp://ftp.roe.ac.uk/ |
Remote user access
Subject to registration of their IP address, remote users can access some of our systems via Secure Shell (SSH). The following are our OpenSSH servers that support the SSH2 protocol.
| Server | operating system |
|---|---|
| katrine.roe.ac.uk | Debian GNU/Linux |
| blackford.roe.ac.uk | Debian GNU/Linux |
ROE users can find more details in the Computing User Notes on Secure Shell. There is also a step by step guide to PuTTY and FileZilla. This is aimed at ROE Windows users, but may include generally useful hints at using SSH tunnels for email and web-browsing.
Intranet
The term "intranet" seems to mean an internal information server that uses the same technology as a public web server. Some intranet servers do this as a byproduct of their main function. We also run two general intranet servers in much the same way as the web servers, except that access is restricted to our own users:
| Location Title | URL |
|---|---|
| Royal Observatory Edinburgh | http://intra.roe.ac.uk/ |
| UK Astronomy Technology Centre | http://intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/ |
| IT Group | http://intra.roe.ac.uk/atc/computing/ |
| Internal Apache-based web server | http://apache.roe.ac.uk/ |
| Internal TWiki webs | http://apache.roe.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view |