1) Phishing Emails / Spam
Lately some emails may show up in your Inbox, supposedly coming from the Espiv crew, asking the users to enter a webpage and put their passwords there… We repeat it one more time: DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORDS TO ANYONE! You must not reveal your email passwords under any circumstances; not even to the espiv.net group.
The only fields where you should fill in the passwords to your email account are just the two webmail of espiv.net: https://mail.espiv.net & https://webmail.espiv.net — both are found on exclusively secure pages (https), and do NOT generate a notification pop-up of your browser whenever you visit them. Apart from those two sites, please ignore any other webpage that asks you to log in to “espiv.net” email: do not open or click on it!
Besides, the Espiv crew sends alerts and newsletters on various topics only through info(at)espiv.net, and will NEVER ask you to give out your passwords! Any other messages that appear as “espiv.net” have nothing to do with espiv.net; they are spam emails. It’s always useful to report such malicious messages back to us…
2) Upgrades to Pages: SMF Forums & Joomla
Moderators who see upgrade notifications in their forums are kindly
requested to go ahead with the upgrade. Whoever encounters a problem
during this process, may email the Espiv crew at support(at)espiv.net, so
that we sort it out together. The same applies for those who maintain
their page in Joomla.
Latest versions are:
for SMF 1.1 -> 1.1.19
for SMF 2.0 => 2.0.7
for Joomla 2.5 => 2.5.19
for Joomla 3 => 3.2.3
so you should be using the latest corresponding version after the upgrades.
3) Dear users and moderators of mailing lists in espiv.net …
We the espiv.net group decided to remove the archive from mailing lists,
to save us some resources. All of the emails sent to a list can be found
in this archive file — emails which already exist in your Inbox, as
long as you are subscribed to that mailing list. Also, many mailing lists
are not public, thus the existence of a centralized record of all the
messages in a list may pose a risk to the privacy of people involved in
it.
So, the archive files of all mailing lists will be deleted from the
espiv.net server two weeks after sending this notification.
There is a way to save the existing record of your list (however it must
already exist in the Inbox of a member, as previously mentioned). It will
take a few steps to download and view the archive file, and you will need
email client software, such as Mozilla Thunderbird,
mozilla.org/thunderbird.
– In Thunderbird, you should create a new account, preferably the email
account with which you are already subscribed to the mailing list.
– Visit https://lists.espiv.net/cgi-bin/mailman/private/mylist typing the
name of your mailing list instead of *mylist*. Log in.
– Install the add-on for Mozilla Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201
– After the installation you should see an icon like a box, which is the
Manager of the add-on. Click and then click on *+* in order to add url.
– Enter the address
https://lists.espiv.net/cgi-bin/mailman/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox
typing again the name of your mailing list instead of *mylist*.
– Save the file mylist.mbox somewhere on your disk. This is the archive
file of your list.
– Go to Thunderbird and install the add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools
– Do right click on our Local Folders, create a new folder and give it the
appropriate name to host the archive file of your list.
– Do right-click on this folder and go to: ImportExportTools > Import mbox
file > Import directly one or more mbox files. Find the mbox that you
downloaded previously.
There you go! The emails from your list should now appear in this folder.