Welcome to Nova.Org The Northern Virginia Internet Access Cooperative (NVIAC) is a DIY/self hosted internet service provider. We offer some really basic services ...
The Situation For many years, nova.org ran out of Fairfax Public Access television's TV studio. We shared their network, electricity, HVAC, etc. As of June 1, 202...
Nova.Org's Mission We are the old school internet. We are open source aficionados and DIY geeks who build and host things on the Internet. We are firm believers t...
Nova.org Services We are an Internet Cooperative, made up of volunteers who provide a myriad of services related to the Internet. We are physically located in th...
List of Nova.Org users Below is a list of users with accounts. If you want to edit topics or see protected areas of the site then you can get added to the list by...
User Registration components This topic contains the pieces that are assembled into the UserRegistration page. This is where we modify things. It's a copy of the...
Key people at Nova.Org We are a bunch of geeks who just do internet stuff. We've been around a while and we do all of it old school. If you need help, or have a q...
Electronic Mail Configuration * Configuration Information for setting up Electronic Mail for your Personal Computer Email client for use at nova.org * (T...
Forgotten Password There is no automated "I forgot my password" process. Contact technical@nova.org from an alternative email address and we can reset your passwo...
Setting Up Your @nova.org Electronic Mail The most important information you need is this: * mailbox.nova.org is the server name used any time a program asks f...
Virtual Private Servers This is a new offering, and not yet fully implemented. We will have the capability in 2020 to offer private virtual servers to members who...
Personal NVIAC Web Sites As of 4/24/24 The creation of new personal websites is on hold until we rebuild our web server after June of 2024. If you need to discuss...
Main.TomPierre 23 Apr 2024 Mozilla Thunderbird configuration now working as of 4/24/24. The configuration will pull correctly, but the Authentication Type is wron...
ow to Perform Email Testing Passwords Our current mail server is named “mail.nova.org”. It offers IMAP and POP for incoming mesages and unencrypted SMTP for outg...
%IF{"(NOT defined GROUP) OR $GROUP = ''" then=' How to add the first administrator If you haven\'t previously set up an administrator, follow these steps: (Note:...
SitePreferences %MAKETEXT{ "Foswiki's default preferences are located in _1 , however settings defined here have override priority and should be used for local ...
Testing and Pre Migration Instructions It is wise to test your email configuration prior to the Day of Migration. Read below. If you want to test, send an email r...
The Migration Process You have successully completed testing and are comfortable with immediately using the new mailbox.nova.org server. There are two types of mi...
iRedMail Sieve SOGo NOVA uses the open source software iRedMail to administrate our electronic mail. iRedMail has the ability to filter email on the Server side,...
GroupViewTemplate %IF{ "'.GroupViewTemplate' allows 'change' AND 'GroupViewTemplate' = 'BaseGroup' AND 'GroupViewTemplate' = 'NobodyGroup' AND {AdminUser...
Header of User Homepages Note: This is a maintenance topic, used by the Wiki administrator. The part between the horizontal rules gets included at the top of ever...
Wiki Administrator User The AdminUser allows you to login without needing to register a user, or to temporarily login as AdminUser using the password set in confi...