Announcements


Emergency Nettica Migration

Emergency Nettica Migration

Incident Summary Due to a system outage on Tuesday June Jun 20, 2017 – 13:11 PDT, Major Outage requiring all Nettica hosted email customers be migrated to the new DuoCircle hosted email platform. Timeline as we became aware…

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Building An Online Audience

Building An Online Audience

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Tracking SMTP  Outbound Credits Usage

Tracking SMTP Outbound Credits Usage

We are excited to announce a long anticipated feature to our outbound SMTP reports.

This upgrade allows you to visually track in real time your daily and monthly SMTP usage. Previously we only displayed the past 24 hours, but now we are providing a rolling 30 days of history and will be expanding the functionality in the very near future.

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G Suite replaces Google Apps for Work

G Suite replaces Google Apps for Work

Today Google announced Google for Work has a new name.

Calendar, Drive, Docs, Gmail, Maps for Work, Search for Work, Sheets and Slides all fall under “G Suite“. It all now falls under Google Cloud (that powering everything), as which will encompass Chromebooks too.

The reason for the change is a step in the direction towards catering for its enterprise customers. The goal for Google is to that G Suite will continue to grow, with built-in collaboration being of the utmost importance.
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New MX Records for DNS Redundancy

New MX Records for DNS Redundancy

On July 1 we experienced DNS failure of our top level mailhop.org domain which impacted customers to a varying degree before ICANN resolved the problem. Part of our mission statement is to minimize all single points of failure for your email service. As a response to this problem we have created three new DNS zones that you should immediately add to your DNS record.
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Trouble Ticket Hall of Fame OpenSSL

Trouble Ticket Hall of Fame OpenSSL

We have been working with this one client for about 4 months on an OpenSSL issue. Today we received this awesome update on his system upgrades that I wanted to share with you. A system administrators job is never done, and what seems like a very straightforward task has twists and turns, dependencies and unintended discoveries.

To all the SysAdmins out there who keep software up to date and systems safe – thank you!

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April Spam Filtering Uptime Report

April Spam Filtering Uptime Report

In April 2016 our uptime was 100% as measured by Pingdom.com

We did have 21 separate system outages with had zero service impact. The network is architected to be self healing and redundant so a single failure or even a failure of one data center will not impact customers.
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Message Statistics

Message Statistics

New Feature Announcement – Message Statistics

Last week we announced the roll out of the brand new message logging portal which allows the Administrative user the ability to view all message logs for their associated domain. This week we have enhanced the portal to include message statistics for all outbound SMTP traffic and inbound delivery for your domains. This is a major step forward and allows you to have complete visibility into your message delivery. If you have multiple domains and services, you’ll be able to access all of this information in one unified location. (more…)

New Feature Announcement – Viewing your Log Files

New Feature Announcement – Viewing your Log Files

View Your Message Logs in Real Time

As part of our platform upgrade we are now providing access to your message logs for Email Gateway, Email Forwarding, Email Backup and Outbound SMTP

This allow the account administrator the tools and insight to verify the service is working as intended or to debug message delivery issues. By allow a greater level of transparency for our customers you’ll be able to review the logs for their mail that is being processed by our service.
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DuoCircle now accepts Paypal

DuoCircle now accepts Paypal

We are happy to announce that we are now accepting PayPal as a payment option for DuoCircle purchases and renewals.

We like to keep things simple at DuoCircle and want to make payment as simple as possible. With that in mind, we’ve just added PayPal and are working on adding Bitcoin.
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European Union Spam Filtering Goes Live

European Union Spam Filtering Goes Live

On March 1st we brough the spam filtering servers located in the EU (Frankfurt) online. This means that we’ll have greater capacity and redundancy for your mail, you can read our entire post about our multi zone spam filtering approach. 

 However if you are currently firewalling your mail server to only accept mail from DuoCircle IP pool you will need to add these IP’s to your white list in order for your email to be delivered correctly: 
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Requesting Account Updates

Requesting Account Updates

As many of you are aware, banks in the USA are finally switching to chip enabled credit and debit cards. It is a massive and overdue step to protect consumers from fraud. 

Credit card companies have started mailing new cards, some with updated expiration dates and others with new credit card numbers. And these changes may impact the credit card that you have on file.

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