What options do I have through our.espiv.net?

Currently our.espiv.net offers the following options: 1. Change password 2. Change backup mail 3. Reset password: With this option you can recover your password by following the instructions that will be sent to your backup mail. 4. Disable account in case of emergency: With this option you deactivate your email as well as your access at our.espiv.net. Be careful! If you deactivate your account, you will no longer have access to our.espiv.net or your email account! The only way to activate your account again is by contacting the espiv/squat team.

What is the “backup mail” I see in our.espiv.net?

This is the email you filled in the registration form when you requested a new account and where information about your newly created account was sent (username & password). It’s the same email that will be used to send you instruction to recover your password in case you’ve forgotten your old one. Until now, the only way someone could change his/her backup mail was through the bug report form. Now through our.espiv.net everyone who has an espiv account can change their backup email.We urge you to make sure that your backup email is an active mail account that you have...

What is our.espiv.net?

our.espiv.net is a new tool which enables users to manage their email account without help from the espiv.net admins. You now have the ability to change your password as well as your backup email. If you don’t remember your password you can reset it using the “Forgot your password?” button. An email with instructions on how to recover your password will be sent to your backup email.

How do I migrate my joomla site to espivblogs?

The migration of the content of a Joomla site becomes fairly easy by using the “FG Joomla to WordPress” plugin. The requested steps are the following:     We activate the “FG Joomla to WordPress” plugin. On the Dashboard of espivblogs we click Tools → Import → Joomla(FG). If we don’t have a blog in espiv, we make a request through the hosting form https://espiv.net/form/ We need the following data from the site’s config :        $user= ‘$dbusername’; Username$password= ‘$dbpassword’; Password$db= ‘$db_name’; Databasepublic$dbprefix = ‘$dbprefix_’; Joomla Table Prefix**    0.3. After we have filled in all of the above data, we click on “test connection”...

Is it possible to automatically forward my emails to other accounts?

There is no way to forward emails to other email providers, there is no such possibility, nor is it a future plan.At espiv we take the security and secrecy of communications very seriously, and we have implemented a series of features towards that direction and for the mail service that we provide, so we see no reason or usefulness in someone having an espiv email if the intend to forward it to somewhere else.Generally, it isn’t a good practice to forward the emails that we receive to other servers, since, that way, we are sending data to a third person...

Is webmail safe to manage emails collectively?

If you are using IMAP to connect to the remote server you will have the same result by using webmail. Everyone will be able to view the same folders.Webmail is not directly related to email security (On the contrary, one could say that webmail is a rather unsafe way to read emails).Email security depends on the following factors: 1. Where emails are stored 2. What form they are in / who can read them 3. How emails travel through the interneta)Using thunderbird or webmail doesn’t change something at this point. Do you trust the team that manages the server? The...