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Maintenance
US IMAP email server downtime

On 22 July 2026 at 10:00 am US/Central time (UTC -5) one of our US IMAP email servers will be shut down for infrastructure maintenance. The server will be offline during the maintenance and the expected downtime is 6 hours.

Affected customers will be notified individually via email.

No incoming mail will be lost while the server is offline. Mail that arrives during the maintenance will be deferred and delivered once the mail server is back online.

We realize that the timing of this relocation is not ideal. If you have business-critical mailboxes and would like them to be available during the maintenance then please email support@opalstack.com or reply to this message to make arrangements to have your mailboxes migrated to a different IMAP server prior to the scheduled maintenance date.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance then please email the Opalstack support team for assistance.

Past Incidents

27th September 2024

No incidents reported

26th September 2024

No incidents reported

25th September 2024

No incidents reported

24th September 2024

No incidents reported

23rd September 2024

No incidents reported

22nd September 2024

No incidents reported

21st September 2024

Email: Germany DE forwarding main server blocked by Microsoft

One of our DE MX servers, mx2.de.opalstack.com on IP 178.162.221.165, was recently blocked by Microsoft. As a result, mail sent to addresses which forward to Microsoft services like hotmail.com, outlook.com, and their international variants would be bounced back to the original sender with an error message.

We've already resolved this issue with Microsoft but they say that it may take 24-48 hours for the block to be fully lifted.

We'll update this post after we've seen no further blocks in a 24 hour period.

  • We've seen no further issues since our previous update.