Is your hosted email domain ready for Google’s & Yahoo’s DMARC requirements?
Starting in February of 2024, Google, Yahoo, and others, will begin requiring that DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, be properly set up on your domain name, if you will be sending email, from your email domain, to them. DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, help authenticate email senders by verifying that the emails came from the domain that they claim to be from.
You can check your domain name, to see if DMARC has already been set up, by using this DMARC Check tool.
Contact us, to set up an appointment, to review your domain, and make sure DMARC is properly set up, so you don’t have trouble sending email to those providers beginning in 2024.
Thunderbird 115 Update Coming Soon
Do you use the Thunderbird email software? During the next several weeks, you should begin to see your installation of Thunderbird 102 automatically update to Thunderbird 115. Thunderbird users may wish to read more about what’s new in the updated Thunderbird so they are not surprised by the update. Details may be found on Thunderbird’s Blog, with the most recent post linked below…
Source: Getting Started With The Main Window Of Thunderbird 115
Email Server Maintenance on Monday, June 26, 2023
We have received notification from our email server provider of upcoming maintenance. This may affect customers with widomaker.com (or tni.net) email addresses, as well as customers, with their own custom domain names, using our Enhanced Email hosting services. This maintenance will NOT affect customers with email hosted on our Plesk hosting servers.
On Monday, June 26, 2023, from 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT, we will be performing service migration work and […] improvements. We are expecting 5 to 15 minutes of downtime during the migration as we need to restart our services. Requests made during this downtime window will fail, and you’ll want to reattempt them once services are restored. We do not expect any other service impacts or downtime.
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail • The Register
We suspect that some people might ask be asking themselves: “who uses a local email client in 2023. Doesn’t everybody use webmail these days?”
Source: Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail • The Register
[Resolved] Email Server Maintenance and Related Anomalies
3/31/2023 – Update – Our email server provider has provided the following update…
… maintenance has been completed.
3/22/2023 – Update – Our email server provider has provided the following update…
As of March 22, 2023, Cluster B of our email service has been successfully moved to a faster and more reliable, modern infrastructure. […..] All log-in issues, or failures to register changes or deletions are now resolved or queued to be resolved. Any actions you or your users take moving forward should complete as expected.
3/15/2023 – Update – Our email server provider has provided the following update…
For 99% of our users the migration has been completed and you should expect a return to normal operating.
That means most everyone’s email should be back to working normally, already, or within a short period of time.
If you are still having trouble or notice missing emails, duplicate emails, or emails that were deleted but came back, please contact us and provide the email addresses affected, along with a description of the issue, so we can have our provider investigate.
Plesk Hosting Server Certificate Renewal (2022+)
The following announcement only affects customers who host their own domain name on our Plesk hosting server.
We have renewed our SSL/TLS security certificate for our Plesk hosting server (host.widomaker.com). This renewed certificate will be used for connections to the Plesk server and the Plesk Control Panel. This includes HTTPS, FTPS, and some email connections (POP3, IMAP, SMTP).
Email Connection Issue August 26 2022
August 26 2022, 6:00 PM – Our email server provider has notified us of an issue that may affect customers using widomaker.com (or tni.net) email addresses, and customer’s using the Hosted Email Pro Enhanced Email service. This issue does not affect customers hosted on the Plesk hosting server. Click the button below for updates.
August 26 2022, 7:00 PM – Issue resolved.
Horde Webmail Changed to RoundCube Webmail on Plesk Hosting Servers
This post is only applicable to customers who have their domain’s email hosted on our Plesk hosting servers _AND_ (at least sometimes) access their email using the Horde webmail application. Note that most hosting customers use Outlook or Thunderbird to access their email, and do not regularly use webmail.
[Resolved] Email Login Issues 10/5/2021 4:30 PM
10/5/2021 4:30 PM: Our email server provider is investigating some email login issues that are causing some email users to experience login failures. This DOES NOT affect email accounts hosted on our Plesk server.
We are experiencing a degradation in service for Hosted Email customers on cluster B( Inbound/Outbound Mail, IMAP, POP). Our Engineering team has been engaged and they are currently investigating the issue.
More details and updates may be found by clicking the link/button, below…
10/5/2021 4:55 PM: The issue has been resolved.
All the services have recovered successfully and customers will be able to log in[…]
[Resolved] Email Login Issues 10/1/2021 3:15 PM
Beginning around, 3:15 PM, on October 1, 2021, some users may have trouble logging into email. Our server provider is investigating. This DOES NOT affect email accounts hosted on our Plesk server. More details may be found here…
Cluster B – Mailstore 21, 23, 25, 27, 29 Login issues
Update 4:10 PM: Our server provider has posted an update…
All the services have recovered successfully and customers will be able to log in[…]
