Topic: RuggedInbox.com - Free offshore email - page 5. (Read 45068 times)

Hi! Thanks for including RIB and thanks for your efforts, very nice project!

By coincidence, we were going to contact you right now when we saw this post
We'd like to add a 'warrant canary' on RIB's home page, that's a very clever idea.
We'll contact you now ..

Thanks for your good work, we've added your email service to our list: https://www.privacytools.io/#email

Everyone, please feel free to participate in our community project.

Hi ok we brought and installed a proper ssl certificate for smtp/pop/imap on the domain mail.ruggedinbox.com (which is the MX record)
and did some tests on thunderbird/icedove + torbirdy in order to check for exceptions.

Since we were there, we did some packet sniffing and it doesn't appear to leak.

On Debian Wheezy this is the install procedure:

on terminal, as root, type:
apt-get install icedove tor
(icedove is the debian name for thunderbird)

open a browser (perhaps TBB) and download the torbirdy add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/

open icedove, go to preferences -> press on the 'switches' button on top right, near the 'Search all add-ons' search box -> 'Install Add-on From File ...'
and select the 'torbirdy-0.1.X-tb.xpi' file you downloaded before.

Close and reopen icedove.

On bottom right you should read the following, in green: TorBirdy Enabled: Tor

Now you can input / create a new mail account.
Insert your username and password.
We tested POP.
Since torbirdy is installed, the wizard is disabled .. you'll need to change some settings manually:

go to preferences -> Account Settings

* Server Settings:
Server Name: mail.ruggedinbox.com
Port: 995
User Name: [email protected]
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Normal password

* Outgoing Server (SMTP) -> Edit
Server Name: mail.ruggedinbox.com
Port: 465
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Normal password
User Name: [email protected]

Now you should be able to send and receive, all traffic will be routed thru Tor and you'll never get the ssl certificate exception.

The new ssl configuration applies also to other clients, with or without Tor they should validate ruggedinbox.com and/or mail.ruggedinbox.com

Hi, we are getting a lot of requests on that, we'll change the configuration on the server as soon as possible in order to use the valid certificate even on pop/imap/smtp.

Thanks for the feedback!

I would like to pick up on this and suggest (gently!!) that I, as a grateful user, do have a problem with the lack of a non-self-signed SSL certificate for IMAP.

I use Postbox, The Bat! (on Windows) and K-9 (on Android). I don't really want to use Claws Mail.

Postbox and The Bat! point-blank refuse to connect without a certificate. I have tried more than once.

K-9 accepts the lack of a certificate at first, but then kick it out and will not connect.

This is such a good email service! Could you (please!) re-consider your stance on certification, so that users of email clients other than Claws can access emails by IMAP or POP?

Thanks!

Yep, 30 outgoing email per day (unlimited incoming) and 1 outgoing email every 3 minutes.
(the limit is daily, not hourly)
Those are the default rules.

We lower the limits for users who asks.

Hi, about your sounds and desktop notification problem, don't know sorry.

About the deactivation policy, currently there isn't any
and storage usage is decently low so there will not be any for long time.

When storage availability will be a problem we'll increase the size.

After that, we'll probably add another server but also enable a very relaxed deactivation policy, for example over 12 months inactive accounts.

decent email client ,but several restrictions on the number of total emails sent in one hour

That's odd,i wonder what the issue can be,any ideas?


What i meant was is there a time frame if one doesn't log in to the e mail account.Some e mail programs will deactivate the account if there are no log in to the e mail program,such as 3 months,6 months etc.Does ruggedinbox have such a policy.

Hi, the form shows 7/24/2015 & time shows 7:30 all the time because they are just examples.

"pretty dates" means something like Monday 1st April 2015 instead of 2015-04-01.

Desktop and sounds notifications works perfectly here.

Session expiration time is 10 hours.

I noticed some other issues,i was gonna upload screenshots but don't see how to accomplish this.

Settings>user interface>date shows 7/24/2015 & time shows 7:30 all the time.
What does "pretty dates" mean?

Settings>mailbox view>Display desktop notifications on new message & Play the sound on new message doesn't work.

I'm not sure but i believe i noticed a time limit with account being active without logging in.Is there a time limit if one doesn't log in in a given time frame.

Hi, thanks for your kind words and for reporting the typo. Fixed!
About leaving BETA stage, yes probably you are right. RIB is now bullet proof and should be considered stable.
(and those were the last unwise words of RIB team ..)

Hi!

As you can see: http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3aruggedinbox.com&run=toolpage

RIB is not blacklisted on any blacklist
but .. M$ (same as gmail) have internal blacklists ..

RIB was never blacklisted on any RBL
and look at the reputation of RIB's public IP (which never changed):
https://www.senderscore.org/lookup.php?lookup=94.156.77.238&validLookup=true

as you pointed out, RIB is simply not a great tool for spamming: 30 emails every day, 3 minutes between every email sent ..

M$ hates us from day 1 (we hate them from long time before), we tried to fill their form to be unblacklisted but nothing happened.
Feel free to try yourself, thanks to you we may have better luck

I recently found ruggedinbox & it seems like a solid e mail program.Not to many bells & whistles which i prefer,but,still has some nice features.

It is still in BETA,at least to my knowledge.I'm no expert but this seems to be a long time for BETA.

Also it seems someone forgot to proof read...this is an excerpt from the features page...

Tried to send to a hotmail account, and a Live account, both are Microsoft.
I received a bounceback message stating my server is on the blocklist.
Is this something that is fixable or, is the Ruggedinbox server forever going to be on the blocklist due to the nature of this server?
I have a hard time believing that anyone would try to use Ruggedinbox to send SPAM since you can only send an email once every 3 minutes.  However, it is on the blocklist so, who knows?  Too bad too,.... I love this email!
Hoping that this can be fixed.

My work around for this problem is to get the family member who I am trying to send an email to, to become create a ruggedinbox account.

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for confirming and you are welcome
And thanks for your patience! We are still missing some decent documentation, we'll use some contents wrote here as a starting point ..

SUCCESS!!!!

I am successfully logged in, sending and receiving email using claws.

This is great! 

What I found:
There were a few changes I had to make in the configuration settings.  You did a great job listing each setting and it was easy to fix. 

Many thanks!
Many thanks!
Many thanks!

Hi please have a look at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10150062

are you using claws-mail with torsocks ?

Hi, that's because the valid SSL certificate is installed only on the web server (webmail).
POP/IMAP and SMTP are still using the self-signed certificate, that's because we decided not to trust CAs (and for the webmails we suggest using the onion address http://s4bysmmsnraf7eut.onion/rc).
We are not thunderbird users but didn't receive any complaints, anyway, would you consider using claws-mail ?