RuggedInbox.com - Free offshore email

[ruggedinbox.com]

The service seems working normal again.

As far as i know they tried to collect donations in the past but with very little sucess.

We tried a fund raise campaign to update a G/PGP plugin for SquirrelMail,
long story short: the plugin required the PRIVATE g/pgp key to be present on the server and so, we canceled the fund raise.

RIB is economically in perfect shape: we are glad to say that the project is self funding (with community donations) from around 1 year.

We hope to fix this spam problem asap ..

TY

I whish you to get the problem fixed soon as i highly recommend your service!

Thank you, yes the outgoing spam problem was stopped and the service looks in good shape since then.
We changed the captcha and wrote some custom rules for spamassassin.
We also had to stop Tor and the relative Hidden Service access, this sucks hard but it looks like from yesterday our Tor HS 'stack' is under ddos :|
We asked for delisting where possible, where not possible we simply need to wait and RIB will be delisted automatically.

TY

[anubizz]

your side seems not to work at the moment. is there a problem?

[$1vEr.$urfer]

The email service is currently virtually unusable!

It is so SLOW that it keeps on timing out... what is going on?

[anubizz]

Seems all is back to normal. Side is working correctly again .

[chromedome]

RIB is down? Have been trying since yesterday with no success. Tried webmail, e-mail client, TOR. Have we lost RIB?

[wchgca]

The same issue here! I'm really concerned because I started using it as my primary mail... What's going on guys?

[anubizz]

RIB is down? Have been trying since yesterday with no success. Tried webmail, e-mail client, TOR. Have we lost RIB?

same here! trying all 15 minutes but nothing!

[anubizz]

i really hope they come back!

[gnack]

i really hope they come back!

Me too.

Previously just the onion service was down. Now the whole site seems to be down. Yesterday I got this message trying to load http://ruggedinbox.com (with no SSL):

503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

[silentstar]

Ruggedinbox is also down for me since Friday.

I know that Voxility (their DDOS Protection and Peering partner) had some problem this day but I'm sure these issues have been already fixed.

I noticed that Ruggedinbox is hosted on a normal VPS. This is not professional in my opinion, also regarding the privacy and reliability. They should use true dedicated servers.

[Terry99]

Given that we are locked out of our darknet SquirrelMail on ruggedinbox, I was pondering alternatives like Sigaint.  But Gmail is probably less likely to go offline for several days (or for good).  Is an onion-based mail service really all that more anonymous than using Gmail over VPN from Private Internet Access, which says it does not keep any logs of any kind and can be paid for anonymously.  Gmail on Tor is unpleasant due to constant calls for cell verification when it encounters a "new" country of dial tone.  The cost issue ($40/year) aside, what are the realistic privacy decrements of going with Gmail via commercial VPN on the web compared to an onion service like Rugged Inbox?

[Reginaldo Di Chatillon]

I tried both clear and tor sides, and it seems pretty dead.

It was not my main mail address, but strangely I have been using it maybe more than the main one.

I hope it comes back soon.

[StationEleven]

Virtual are the best way to recover quickly.
Something else is wrong.
Sure wish we could get an update from a moderator.  This is my only email and it has been down for a long time.

[wchgca]

Well, I believe they'll be back soon. BTW it's pretty annoying that there is no official communication channel or IRC or whatever. Sure we can wait but we don't know if there is something for.

[chromedome]

I just checked Canary Watch. RIB was added on 4-29-2015. They were last checked 9-23-2015. "Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter. They may have received a "national security letter" or legal process and went offline like Lavabit.  Just sayin' . I hope that's not the case and that they come back, and "re-certify" on Canary Watch. <p>https://www.canarywatch.org

[anubizz]

Well, I believe they'll be back soon. BTW it's pretty annoying that there is no official communication channel or IRC or whatever. Sure we can wait but we don't know if there is something for.

Exactly what i think about the situation!

[wchgca]

The site is now even unfindable using google... No replies, no contact. I assume it's over.

[vadong]

well, google is not the only one.
if you use some other search engines, you will find ruggedinbox.com and some subsites on the top of the results:

duckduckgo
ixquick
swisscows
bing
yahoo
and others...

but of course, ruggedinbox is currently down.

[www.BitcoinFreeCasino.com]

Message to ruggedinbox admins:

You guys had a great service, dont know what happened to you.  Im interested in helping you guys get back up.   Get in touch.

[ruggedinbox.com]

Hi all and sorry for the long downtime, nothing wrong with the security and privacy/integrity of the service but reason was our disorganization and quite unlucky timing: busy with daily jobs, problems with connectivity, problems with blockchain.info wallet.
The VPS went to 'inactive' mode and we now made few payments to restore the services (RIB, cloud and tor exit node, we'll refund the last one asap).
Also, VPS storage is probably full and we need to enable the script to remove old and unused accounts.
Also, there is a silly easter-egg cronjob on the VPS ... it will probably change the RIB logo on the home page once the data center process the payments and press 'play' on the VPS ...
we'll restore the image and update the canary asap.

Sorry for the inconvenience, anyway we are back and hope to regain trust with better uptime and support (and another project and few ideas).

Service should be back in around 24 hours.