Tuffmail updates
 

Because of the many different topics that have arisen in this thread, I setup a new thread for Tuffmail updates.

Unencrypted Clear Text Authentication and SMTP Port 25 Will Be Disabled on 2020-04-01
 

Source: https://status.tuffmail.net/index.ph...020-04-01.html

John Capo has an averse to social media. He deleted his Twitter account (brought up by his predecessor).

Nevertheless it's useful to have the Twitter or other social media account, in the event of ddos that takes down your service and/or website, so you have at least an alternative way for customers to contact you and vice versa.

Perhaps someone else (you, Berenburger!) would consider setting up a Twitter fan account? :cool:

I agree, there needs to be some way to reach a company if/when their main contact email or support ticket system goes down. Strangely, it seems to be more and more common that the best way to get actual support for some businesses quickly is via Twitter. I suspect the public nature of Twitter is an added incentive for a real human being to respond in such a way that it shows the company cares. What I really hate is when you file a support ticket via a system and hear nothing from the company for days--you have no idea if they are working on it, or what.

Online signups removed. You can request an account.

Seems odd--how do all the other email providers deal with this? I run a small nonprofit and we have all sorts of online signup and payment forms freely available on our website. Once in awhile we have some scammer try to sign up, but it really isn't a big issue. There is no special security or anything--just widely available and used Wordpress plugins and such.

It's really odd. As if scammers/spammers are unable to send an email requesting an account.