All systems are operational
Maintenance
Scheduled US IMAP email server downtime

On 26 August 2026 at between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm US/Pacific time our network team will be performing infrastructure maintenance. During this 5-hour window, network connectivity to one of our US IMAP/POP3 email servers will be interrupted for up to 1 hour.

As a result, some customer mailboxes will be unavailable for up to 1 hour during the network interruption. Customers who will be impacted by the interruption have been emailed directly.

No incoming mail will be lost during the interruption. Mail that arrives during the interruption 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 interruption will not be stored as sent mail in IMAP folders on the server.

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 contact the Opalstack support team.

Past Incidents

26th January 2024

No incidents reported

25th January 2024

No incidents reported

24th January 2024

Email: USA Change to default SPF and DMARC policies

On 23 January 2024 we began publishing default SPF and DMARC DNS records for domains that use Opalstack's DNS and mail systems.

The default policies that we published were somewhat restrictive and were causing mail sent from some customer domains to go to spam so we've made the following changes to the policies:

  • The policy for SPF has been changed from hard fail "-all" to soft fail "~all".
  • The policy for DMARC has been changed from "quarantine" to "none".

The net result of these changes is that customer mail is still compliant with SPF and DMARC but with a less-restrictive policy to help legitimate mail arrive in your inbox.

23rd January 2024

No incidents reported

22nd January 2024

No incidents reported

21st January 2024

No incidents reported

20th January 2024

No incidents reported