Any one here use safe mail.it been down

[noon]

Looking for an alternate email if it doesn't come back up

[BG]

This I believe is the latest, I wonder what the 250,000 were involved in?




Sat Nov 7 15:15 EST 2015

We are sorry! Safe-mail is not ready yet.
Safe-mail.net is down for critical maintainance.

We are very sorry. The current safe-mail service downtime is a major event, we should learn from it and come out with a much better service for our loyal users.
About 18 month ago we have switched our hosting company as we felt that our previous hosting service was not as good as we would like it to be.
During the last year we have suffered from an increasing level of abuse and attacks of many types. Eventually we had to stop automatic self-registration and require a mail request to open a free account.
For several months we are in the process of transferring users' data to new and better equipment, as a result about 90% of our users will not lose any data. The rest may suffer a minimal loss of messages sent or received just before the crash (hours up to a few days).
During this downtime we have already replaced most of our hardware and installed a new version of the operating system.
The current downtime forced us to execute the system overhaul earlier than planned.
We think that this is not good enough.
As soon as the system is functioning, we intend to start building a separate system dedicated to our Premium users.
This system will have full redundancy and could continue working even if the Free sub-system will need to shut down.
Wed Nov 4 03:20 EST 2015


The Safe-mail.net system suffered a major storage hardware crash.
Much of the Safe-mail.net system is now renewed. Most of the users' data was not affected by the crash, as we already moved it to a new system during the last few months.
Once the system is functioning again, most of the hardware (and operating system) will be new.
We salvaged additional data from the crashed storage.
About 8% of users' data need to be recovered from the Backup system. Accounts that will be restored from the Backup system may loose the last few hours of activity before the crash.
The Safe-mail.net system suffered a major storage hardware crash.
About 80% of user's data is not affected by the crash, as we already moved it to a new system during the last few months.
The rest is either to be salvaged from the crashed storage, or will be restored from the Backup system.
At this time we will permanently remove about 250,000 user accounts that were involved in activity which violates the Safe-mail.net Agreement and policy.
Note: Only those who violate our policy will be deleted. Most accounts are not affected.

Free web based registration to Safe-mail.net will not be available.
Free accounts will be opened by sending a request to Safe-mail.net.
In the near future, separate subsystems will be used for Free and Premium accounts.
This will enable better service and even enable shutdown of the Free subsystem without affecting the Premium users.
Further information will be published.

[Bio-Active]

Safe mail has been a mess for a while now and even before the recent it been hit and miss

[noon]

I just looked into a tutanota account

[BG]

I just looked into a tutanota account

How does that look ?

[Sfla80]

Safe mail was hacked recently... (few months back) I would stay away from safe mail.

Use a paid version

[GirlyGymRat]

Safe mail was hacked recently... (few months back) I would stay away from safe mail. Use a paid version

Hmmmm. Some sources work through safe mail. Hmmm.

[Sfla80]

Hmmmm. Some sources work through safe mail. Hmmm.

Personally wouldn't use safe mail or a source that uses it.

Could have been rumors but heard multiple people ND sources say been hacked

[almostgone]

Personally wouldn't use safe mail or a source that uses it.

Could have been rumors but heard multiple people ND sources say been hacked

Most of the ones I know of are using securenym, anonymous speech, protonmail, etc. Have heard several rumblings about staying away from safe-mail.
Something is going on. Hush, safe-mail, and proton all have been hit with DDoS attacks, etc. recently.

[thisAngelBites]

Safe mail is one of the most amateur "secure" mail sites I have seen. I would also not use anything free. Think about it: law enforcement turns up at your door and wants records, if you're not paid for what you do, why in god's name would you risk refusing, going to jail, or hiring expensive lawyers if people aren't paying you?. You have no contract with those people without consideration (paying them).

They also have to be registered with the Ministry of Defense, as everyone using encrypted servers do, and those people will hand anything to the US that it asks for (as long as they get something in return, ;-)) Not an issue for buying some test, but if you're a dealer, that is the potential kiss of death.

Anonymous speech is a good one, a friend uses runbox and swears by it (I believe servers are in Norway), but I haven't looked at them personally.

[noon]

So far it's working well ill use it lightly until I decide on another.

[Roger11]

Use counter mail