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Mar 8 - We will be migrating Cotse into the CodaMail servers tomorrow evening EST (Sun Mar 9). During this time mail will be unavailable for around 3-5 hours. After which, all should continue to function as it does, but just on new servers with more features. That said, this is actually a very large move with a vast number of parts, all of which are changing. While we have been in testing for a year, there is nothing like actually moving everyone to fully put it through it's paces. So if you have any difficulty after the migration, please let us know right away.
Mar 3 - Unfortunately, we have decided to postpone this migration one more weekend. We do not believe that everyone is aware of our migration even given the time it has been being announced, so we will be sending out mail asking people to check notices to ensure that everyone is aware.
Mar 1 - Sunday evening Mar 2 mail will be unavailable for a few hours while we migrate our Cotse.Net subscribers into CodaMail. After which you will be automatically connecting to the new site. You will not need to perform any action for this switchover to happen, after it you will be able to log into a legacy cotse webmail or the new CodaMail webmail. so do not fall for phishing e-mail that says you must do something for this to happen, we only announce here when changes are necessary.
Speaking of which, here is one change some will have to perform. After the migration is complete, anyone using the fetch mail feature to automatically retrieve e-mail will need to set this up again in the CodaMail webmail interface, this is the one feature we were unable to migrate for you. To do so just log into CodaMail and go to Settings->Fetch Mail. Ignore any mail telling you to click some link to do this, do it manually, any links are phishing mail.
DO NOT do this before the migration Sunday as this will affect the final mail sync and you will lose e-mail. The sync is one way, cotse to codamail and will erase all CodaMail.
Feb 28 - We will be migrating all of cotse over to the codamail servers this coming Sunday (Mar 2). YOU WILL NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING. That is capitalized because the phishing attackers monitor notices and will be sending out links telling you that you need to do something like login somewhere, or click something to log into or register with a new webmail, or click a link to verify, or click to transfer mail, etc. Ignore every one of these! Please keep an eye here on notices for any further information.
Feb 23 - We will be delaying the final switch-over to the new servers and service, at least for a couple days, maybe until next weekend. We are ready to go, but down key people due to illness. We will keep you updated here.
Feb 20 - We are currently in process of syncing Cotse email to the new codamail servers, this may take a few days. This first sync is a fair amount of load which may affect performance a little during it, so if you find your cotse mail a bit slower, it is only temporary. Once the initial sync is done, incrementals will be far less load and faster. This weekend we will be switching over to the new servers. Our expectation is that this all goes smoothly without you needing to do a thing and everything continues to work as it does now but be far faster with a lot more features. The testing has shown this, but the reality is, no matter how much testing that you do, nothing compares to real world regular use. So, the old servers will still be available should something not transfer properly.
Jan 24 - We are in the final stages of preparation to migrate Cotse.Net into CodaMail. Cotse will run with CodaMail and be available by it's own domain name. It will bring with it Web Hosting, SSH Tunneling, Socks Proxy, and VPN servers all under the Cotse.Net domain. Cotse will expand upon CodaMail's offerings with the addition of more storage, more services, more advanced features, and the ability use the legacy html based webmail or the CodaMail webmail, where cotse subscribers will see additional features and settings. We are targeting the completion of the migration within the next 2 - 3 weeks, depending upon the completion of the beta stage.
Jan 15 - Please note that scammers will likely try to phish you based upon this migration. We will not be asking you to do or change anything to keep your email working. Don't fall for phishing and don't follow links in email pertaining to this migration, just type in the url and view notices manually.
As we get closer to the migration of Cotse into the CodaMail infrastructure, we would like to answer some of the questions you may have, such as how will this affect you? Our aim is to have the only effect be a much faster and more robust email with a whole lot of new options, far larger quotas, exclusive features and services, and a choice of webmail interfaces.
We already have the existing Cotse email infrastructure working with the new CodaMail infrastructure and we have rewritten the Cotse webmail in the process, so after the migration you will be able to use either webmail. You will be able to stay with the html based one you are used to or you will be able to use the more modern interface of CodaMail...or switch back and forth between them.
Cotse subscribers will be rewarded as Cotse becomes the premiere service for CodaMail, meaning that Cotse subscribers will have different quotas, features, and services that CodaMail subscribers just will not have (nor any other service, for that matter), while also offering everything that CodaMail does offer.
Our target date for the migration is sometime around the end of January or into early February, depending upon how fast we finish testing and what it may unexpectantly turn up that we have to fix. The migration will involve a planned maintenance period of a few plus hours where we migrate and/or convert everyone's logins, password hashes, email, folders, settings, domains, and filters over to the CodaMail servers while also changing formats (For you techs: Cotse stores email in mbox format, CodaMail is in maildir and encrypts each message individually prior to disk storage, and I don't have space to explain all of the other differences). We will also update DNS to point to the new servers while this is happening.
This means that when we come back online the plan is that all your current settings work as they always have. Your existing email clients continue to work. You will be able to log into webmail as normal. You will be able to log into either cotse.net or codamail.com. The only difference you should see is the service being far faster, much more robust, and with a bunch of new options and features. That is the plan, anyway.
Note: We do intend to leave the old servers available for a short period after the migration...just in case.
More information will follow as we get closer to the migration date. We have chosen to delay the VPN upgrades and configuration changes until after the mail migration is complete.
Dec 22 - We are preparing for the final merging of cotse into the CodaMail service and targeting late January for the switchover. Cotse will become the premiere level of service at CodaMail gaining all of the features and keeping it's own with increased quotas and services. This change will be mostly transparant to you (we will likely have a few hours of downtime for the mail move). You will not have to change anything that you currently have set up. After the migration you may use either the cotse interface or the codamail interface for your webmail.
Dec 22 - Cotse will be making changes to it's vpn services which will require new configs, an announcement will be made here with the timeline for the changes.
Oct 28 - Express1 is back up.
Oct 28 - Express1 is currently down with a hardware failure, this is being addressed.
Phishing: We are a constant target of phishing e-mail. We will never send you formatted e-mail, we only send plain text. We do not send links for you to click. Do not follow links or click things in emails. Manually come to our website and check notices, to make a payment, etc. As always, email helpdesk if you have questions.
Reminder: Because we are a privacy service, we do not back up your personal e-mail. This means that when you delete it, it is irretreivably gone. It is not floating around in some backup that can be retrieved from us against your will. However, it also means you must download and save your important mail, if you delete it, or we suffer a data failure, we do what we can with recovery tools, but we most likely cannot restore it.
For optimum privacy with the service use a pop3s mail app and set it to delete the mail from the server after retrieval. We also recommend that your local mail store be an encrypted volume. Once your mail is removed from the server by your mail app, we no longer have a copy, no mail backups and we are deliberately not with a large cloud service, instead opting to keep everything in-house, for the same reason. This puts you in full control of your mail and its privacy. When you delete it, it can't be retrieved and there is no record of it being there.
Mar 3 - Unfortunately, we have decided to postpone this migration one more weekend. We do not believe that everyone is aware of our migration even given the time it has been being announced, so we will be sending out mail asking people to check notices to ensure that everyone is aware.
Mar 1 - Sunday evening Mar 2 mail will be unavailable for a few hours while we migrate our Cotse.Net subscribers into CodaMail. After which you will be automatically connecting to the new site. You will not need to perform any action for this switchover to happen, after it you will be able to log into a legacy cotse webmail or the new CodaMail webmail. so do not fall for phishing e-mail that says you must do something for this to happen, we only announce here when changes are necessary.
Speaking of which, here is one change some will have to perform. After the migration is complete, anyone using the fetch mail feature to automatically retrieve e-mail will need to set this up again in the CodaMail webmail interface, this is the one feature we were unable to migrate for you. To do so just log into CodaMail and go to Settings->Fetch Mail. Ignore any mail telling you to click some link to do this, do it manually, any links are phishing mail.
DO NOT do this before the migration Sunday as this will affect the final mail sync and you will lose e-mail. The sync is one way, cotse to codamail and will erase all CodaMail.
Feb 28 - We will be migrating all of cotse over to the codamail servers this coming Sunday (Mar 2). YOU WILL NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING. That is capitalized because the phishing attackers monitor notices and will be sending out links telling you that you need to do something like login somewhere, or click something to log into or register with a new webmail, or click a link to verify, or click to transfer mail, etc. Ignore every one of these! Please keep an eye here on notices for any further information.
Feb 23 - We will be delaying the final switch-over to the new servers and service, at least for a couple days, maybe until next weekend. We are ready to go, but down key people due to illness. We will keep you updated here.
Feb 20 - We are currently in process of syncing Cotse email to the new codamail servers, this may take a few days. This first sync is a fair amount of load which may affect performance a little during it, so if you find your cotse mail a bit slower, it is only temporary. Once the initial sync is done, incrementals will be far less load and faster. This weekend we will be switching over to the new servers. Our expectation is that this all goes smoothly without you needing to do a thing and everything continues to work as it does now but be far faster with a lot more features. The testing has shown this, but the reality is, no matter how much testing that you do, nothing compares to real world regular use. So, the old servers will still be available should something not transfer properly.
Jan 24 - We are in the final stages of preparation to migrate Cotse.Net into CodaMail. Cotse will run with CodaMail and be available by it's own domain name. It will bring with it Web Hosting, SSH Tunneling, Socks Proxy, and VPN servers all under the Cotse.Net domain. Cotse will expand upon CodaMail's offerings with the addition of more storage, more services, more advanced features, and the ability use the legacy html based webmail or the CodaMail webmail, where cotse subscribers will see additional features and settings. We are targeting the completion of the migration within the next 2 - 3 weeks, depending upon the completion of the beta stage.
Jan 15 - Please note that scammers will likely try to phish you based upon this migration. We will not be asking you to do or change anything to keep your email working. Don't fall for phishing and don't follow links in email pertaining to this migration, just type in the url and view notices manually.
As we get closer to the migration of Cotse into the CodaMail infrastructure, we would like to answer some of the questions you may have, such as how will this affect you? Our aim is to have the only effect be a much faster and more robust email with a whole lot of new options, far larger quotas, exclusive features and services, and a choice of webmail interfaces.
We already have the existing Cotse email infrastructure working with the new CodaMail infrastructure and we have rewritten the Cotse webmail in the process, so after the migration you will be able to use either webmail. You will be able to stay with the html based one you are used to or you will be able to use the more modern interface of CodaMail...or switch back and forth between them.
Cotse subscribers will be rewarded as Cotse becomes the premiere service for CodaMail, meaning that Cotse subscribers will have different quotas, features, and services that CodaMail subscribers just will not have (nor any other service, for that matter), while also offering everything that CodaMail does offer.
Our target date for the migration is sometime around the end of January or into early February, depending upon how fast we finish testing and what it may unexpectantly turn up that we have to fix. The migration will involve a planned maintenance period of a few plus hours where we migrate and/or convert everyone's logins, password hashes, email, folders, settings, domains, and filters over to the CodaMail servers while also changing formats (For you techs: Cotse stores email in mbox format, CodaMail is in maildir and encrypts each message individually prior to disk storage, and I don't have space to explain all of the other differences). We will also update DNS to point to the new servers while this is happening.
This means that when we come back online the plan is that all your current settings work as they always have. Your existing email clients continue to work. You will be able to log into webmail as normal. You will be able to log into either cotse.net or codamail.com. The only difference you should see is the service being far faster, much more robust, and with a bunch of new options and features. That is the plan, anyway.
Note: We do intend to leave the old servers available for a short period after the migration...just in case.
More information will follow as we get closer to the migration date. We have chosen to delay the VPN upgrades and configuration changes until after the mail migration is complete.
Dec 22 - We are preparing for the final merging of cotse into the CodaMail service and targeting late January for the switchover. Cotse will become the premiere level of service at CodaMail gaining all of the features and keeping it's own with increased quotas and services. This change will be mostly transparant to you (we will likely have a few hours of downtime for the mail move). You will not have to change anything that you currently have set up. After the migration you may use either the cotse interface or the codamail interface for your webmail.
Dec 22 - Cotse will be making changes to it's vpn services which will require new configs, an announcement will be made here with the timeline for the changes.
Oct 28 - Express1 is back up.
Oct 28 - Express1 is currently down with a hardware failure, this is being addressed.
Phishing: We are a constant target of phishing e-mail. We will never send you formatted e-mail, we only send plain text. We do not send links for you to click. Do not follow links or click things in emails. Manually come to our website and check notices, to make a payment, etc. As always, email helpdesk if you have questions.
Reminder: Because we are a privacy service, we do not back up your personal e-mail. This means that when you delete it, it is irretreivably gone. It is not floating around in some backup that can be retrieved from us against your will. However, it also means you must download and save your important mail, if you delete it, or we suffer a data failure, we do what we can with recovery tools, but we most likely cannot restore it.
For optimum privacy with the service use a pop3s mail app and set it to delete the mail from the server after retrieval. We also recommend that your local mail store be an encrypted volume. Once your mail is removed from the server by your mail app, we no longer have a copy, no mail backups and we are deliberately not with a large cloud service, instead opting to keep everything in-house, for the same reason. This puts you in full control of your mail and its privacy. When you delete it, it can't be retrieved and there is no record of it being there.