All systems are operational
Maintenance
Scheduled DE IMAP/POP3 email server downtime

On 24 September 2026 at between 07:00 am and 10:00 am UTC our network team will be relocating one of our mailbox storage servers to a new location within the data center.

The server will be offline during the relocation. As a result, some customer mailboxes will be unavailable for up to 3 hours during the relocation. Affected customers will be notified directly via email.

Affected customers will not be able to check their email for affected mailboxes during the relocation.

No incoming mail will be lost during the relocation. Mail that arrives during the relocation will be deferred and delivered once connectivity to the mail server is restored.

Email forwarding and SMTP services will not be affected, however messages sent via SMTP during the relocation will not be stored as sent mail in IMAP folders on the server.

Customer websites will not be affected by the relocation.

We realize that the timing of this relocation may not be ideal. Customer who would like to have their mailboxes migrated to a different server in advance of the server relocation should contact the Opalstack support team to make the necessary arrangements.

We'll update our status page at http://status.opalstack.com/ at the beginning of the maintenance window. To be informed of system status updates automatically please subscribe at https://status.opalstack.com/subscribe.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance then please email our support team and someone from our team will get back to you as soon as possible.

Past Incidents

25th December 2021

No incidents reported

24th December 2021

No incidents reported

23rd December 2021

No incidents reported

22nd December 2021

No incidents reported

21st December 2021

No incidents reported

20th December 2021

No incidents reported

19th December 2021

No incidents reported

18th December 2021

Email: Germany German SMTP blocked by Microsoft

On December 18 2021 at 19:30 UTC Microsoft began blocking mail sent from smtp.de.opalstack.com to domains that use the Microsoft 365 email system.

Microsoft's own IP reputation and junk mail reporting systems indicate that there are no problems with smtp.de.opalstack.com so we've reached out to them for answers.

We'll update this post as soon as more information is available.

In the interim as a possible workaround customers may create a new mailbox on our US mail server and use that temporarily for their outgoing email authentication.

  • We've still not received confirmation from Microsoft that the block was lifted, but we've seen no further blocking activity since 23:50 UTC on 20 December 2021 so we consider this incident to be closed.

  • Microsoft began accepting mail from smtp.de.opalstack.com as of 23:50 UTC on 20 December 2021.

    We're still awaiting official confirmation that the block has been lifted.