Terms of Service

This page was a copy of the privacy one, which is not what terms of service are for. Until it carries real ones, here is plainly what this service is, and what you must not do with it.

What you must be allowed to do

• · IMAP Migration asks for two mailbox passwords. Use it only on mailboxes you own or have been authorised to move. The source is opened read-only and nothing there is deleted or modified, but that is a safeguard, not a permission.
• · List Verification is for lists you are entitled to send to. With mailbox probing on, it connects to other people's mail servers and names each address. It is a hygiene check before a send you were already going to make — not a way to find out whether an address exists.
• · Archive Recovery rebuilds sites, it does not launder them. What the Internet Archive kept still belongs to whoever wrote it.
• · Mail Doctor and Mail Tester check domains and messages. Checking someone else's domain is harmless and public; hammering it is not.
• · Monitoring watches something on your behalf, over and over. Everything it reads is public — the blacklists, the certificate your server presents, what the registry publishes about a domain, what its DNS answers — so watching a domain that is not yours is not an intrusion. Doing it to a hundred of them is a load on other people's servers, and that is what the limits are for.

Limits, and why they exist

Daily and concurrent limits are not only a commercial lever. Every one of these tools connects to machines that belong to someone else — blacklists, mail servers, the Internet Archive — and a service that lets one account hammer them becomes a tool of abuse in days, and gets blocked for everyone. Going around the limits with several accounts or addresses is the one thing that gets access cut without notice.

What it does not promise

• · These are diagnostics, not guarantees. A 10/10 does not promise your mail reaches the inbox: it says the things that can be measured came out right, and it names what could not be measured.
• · A migration copies what the source server hands over. It is safe to repeat and it never duplicates, but it is not a backup, and it is not a substitute for checking the result yourself before you switch anything over.
• · Results are deleted after 72 hours. Download what you need — that is what the export buttons are for. Monitoring is the exception, and it has to be: what is being watched, and what was last seen, are kept while the monitor exists — otherwise there is nothing to compare against and nothing to tell you. Stop the monitor and it all goes, history included. The privacy page says it in full.

How your data is handled is on the privacy page, including which third parties each tool has to ask.

There is no contact address yet — this is not open for signup, and putting up a mailbox nobody reads would be worse than saying so.