Which Email hosting services have a feature equivalent to Rackspace's "Aliases"?
Rackspace alternative that does NOT use Exchange or 365?
Is Rackspace Email dying?
Rackspace hosted email hijack exploit
Ok, I can see the point. A simple check to see if the domain exists within the mail server is a common configuration as it saves wasted bandwidth sending the mail externally. However the exploit is only vulnerable to mail sent from those SMTP servers, the odds are that any password resets etc for important accounts such as banking etc would come direct from their own SMTP servers and as a result be directed to the correct mail server advertised on DNS. What you really want to worry about is that many Shared Hosting companies will also use automated provisioning systems that will rewrite DNS records automatically so that the end user doesn't have to (only applicable if using that companies NS). This could well be another form of the same type of 'attack'.
The check the companies need to implement to correct this is at the account level however, and should be completed when a registered domain is linked to any newly purchased service such as email, hosting etc. If an account or service exists locally for the domain then the purchase should be linked to that account or rebutted and a contact call raised to the sales dept to contact the account owner or domain owner on whois to verify the attempted purchase. At least that's how I'd fix it.
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I have a small RS Email account (4 mailboxes). I use Rackspace's "ALIAS" (1 to many) feature heavily. By many I mean 50+ ALIASES in one mailbox. If I have to move off RS can someone offer some providers that have the equivalent feature?
I am not savy enough to host my own email so I am looking for some hosting service recommendations.
Thanks,
J
Hi all,
I've been tasked to look for an email service provider to replace Rackspace, due to the latest debacle they've been not so transparent about. Any non-Microsoft based providers worth looking at? I've been told by powers that be that anything Exchange-related is NOT an option.
We have about 20-25 mailboxes (cannot remember at midnight), a whole bunch of aliases, and four of those mailboxes have email in excess of 25gb; which is how we found ourselves in this predicament since Rackspace basically forced our hand that required us to use Exchange. (Why they could't have simply upped the capacity of their Rackspace Email platform is a question I haven't heard answered anywhere).
So…I’ve been having problems with the Rackspace control panel and the email help page at https://emailhelp.rackspace.com.
Tonight I could not log into emailhelp, so I called Rackspace for support. I told them that this has been going on for quite some time and the tech said it has been working intermittently for at least 6 months.
This got me a little worried. The Rackspace logo has been missing at the top left of https://emailhelp.rackspace.com for a long time now and the copyright notice at the bottom of the page indicates no changes since 2020. I was wondering if Rackspace just didn’t have the funds to fix it.
So I went out and looked at their stock - it is now a “penny stock”. It seems to have crashed at the end of 2022 and has never recovered. It closed at $2.93.
Then I went and looked at their financials, and it just gets worse…
For the full year, the company reported a widening net loss of $837.8 million on revenue of $2.96 billion . It had finished 2022 with a net loss of $804.8 million on revenue of $3.12 billion. Rackspace CEO Amar Maletira called 2023 “a period of transition.”
The cheap IMAP accounts have been great, but between those and that giant Exchange disaster that caused Rackspace to abandon hosted Exchange email completely (AFAIK), it seems that Rackspace’s best days are behind them.
I guess I need to move my IMAP emails to Namecheap where my domains are going after the great Google Domain abandonment of 2024.
Are there any other IMAP hosting companies that I should consider? I’d like to make the move soon - no need to be the last rat off the sinking ship.
You should be using to an SMTP service. IMAP/POP3 services are not recommended.