Also missed PurelyMail. Give it a shot as a successor to Tuffmail (just opened a trial account). After all, Tuffmail was also a one-man show for decades. ;)

Tuffmail.net shutdown timing: updated
 

John (Capo) is graciously allowing an extra 2 days to transfer email off of his (Tuffmail's) service. Thanks John!

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Tuffmail's manage.tuffmail.net admin portal (for customers) had it's standard status header updated to read as below, with 2nd sentence seemingly added ~6pm CST / midnight UTC today, ~30 mins ago. :)

Thanks, John for running a great service for all those years.. all aboard!

Can I acquire Tuffmail?

Fastmail is taking over the domain names.

Tuffmail Shutting Down Tonight
 

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I'm confirming Tuffmail is down.

https://manage.tuffmail.net portal is no longer functional, IMAPS on mail.mxes.net is no longer responding (even though John extended access to me over the weekend). https://www.tuffmail.com is still showing the original website, not sure how long that will be.

Hopefully John Capo (leader of Tuffmail) can now rest in peace and/or enjoys his next stage of life.

https://www.tuffmail.com is now redirecting to Fastmail.

Very sad :(

He’s not dead. It’s just email. ;)

Why not resuscitate John's tuffmail world? Actually, anyone know why he closed up shop that was so loved and supported?

I'm no technical expert, but I think 1) he did not want to sell his "baby" to a big corporation (and I congratulate him for that); 2) a trustworthy one-man business does not have the resources to keep alive and improve the outdated Squirrelmail setup or to transition to another webmail. My suppositions.