Email Migration

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Well, everything has been fine here at RapidEmail.net with no problems whatsoever.  However, it’s time that we get our valued customers migrated off to one of three platforms:

  1. Google Mail (aka gmail)
  2. Microsoft Mail
  3. Basic email hosting (no calendars etc)

If you need assistance choosing your platform, it’s pretty easy.  If you enjoy using Word, Excel and Outlook, your best bet is to have us migrate your email to Microsoft.  If you’re more of a Google user, utilizing tools like Google Drive, Google Voice, Google Chat and a vast array of other Google services, your best bet is to have us transfer your email to Google.  If neither of those sound like you, we can get things transferred to a basic email host.

We will be closing down our services at the end of 2026.  Current costs for hosting with other providers are:

Microsoft – $12.50/mo per account

Google – $7.20/mo per account

Basic hosting – $2/mo per account

Note – ALL of the above are PER ACCOUNT costs.  This doesn’t mean PER EMAIL ADDRESS.  A single account can have an unlimited number of aliases associated with it.

At the end of 2026, if you haven’t yet had us help you move your email, your accounts will still be accessible but no new messages will be accepted.

Please contact us as soon as you can to start your migration.

No news is good news!

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I was looking at the website today and realized there haven’t been any updates since 2019 – well, we’re still here, and everything has been working great.  We just haven’t had anything to report lately!  If you’re looking for email for your business or just a personal address that isn’t getting snooped on by big brothers Google or Microsoft, we’re here for you!

Server Maintenance

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Our main server is down for emergency maintenance this morning. We apologize for the downtime yesterday and again today. We hope to have services restored soon.

Inbound email delivery issue

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Good afternoon.  Inbound email services were not working properly earlier today because of a outage with our anti-spam service provider.  Email was delivered intermittently through the late morning and early afternoon, but services seem to be fully restored now.

POODLE Vulnerability Statement

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Our email services were vulnerable to the POODLE attack, but patched just hours after the announcement of the fix.  We no longer accept SSLv2 or SSLv3 requests.  Be sure your clients are set to have TLS encryption instead of SSL encryption protocols.

Migrating to new server

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Our current server has put in its time and as happy as it’s been, it’s time to deploy a new server for preventative maintenance.  All email will be retained.  The new server has more memory, faster processors, and we’ll be transitioning from OpenVZ virtualization to VMWare, which will allow us to do some cool things that I won’t bother explaining in this post.  The server is currently offline, but we hope to have it back online by 2am tomorrow.

Inbound Anti-Spam Server

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If we host email for your domain name, you’ll want to set your MX record on your domain to:

scrub.rapidemail.net

Please notify us when you’ve done this so that we know to configure our anti-spam server accordingly.  If you need assistance with making this change, we would be more than happy to do it for you.  We suggest you temporarily change your password to your DNS provider – normally GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Amazon, etc – let us know the password, we’ll make the change, and then you can change your password back to whatever it was prior to our work.  There is no charge for this service.