I've used Tuffmail for well over 15 years. Now looking for an alternative. The email I received is as follows:
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Hello Tuffmail Customer,
Tuffmail will cease operations January 1. I'm very sorry for the hassle that this may cause for you and your users.
Customers with outstanding invoices were notified last week. Customers due to be invoiced will receive renewal invoices this week. If recurring billing is enabled for your account, you can change from quarterly billing to monthly billing if desired by paying the next invoice or let us know.
Recurring billing can be canceled and accounts can be deleted in the Manager.
https://manage.tuffmail.net/ Click Account -> Contact Info and scroll down to cancel recurring
Click Account -> Delete Account to delete an account
There are many options for hosting your domain(s). The least expensive being forwarding email from your domain registrar to a free Google or Hotmail account. Some registrars provide mailbox services at very low cost.
Other options include but are not limited to:
https://fastmail.com/
https://protonmail.com/
https://runbox.com/
https://greatmail.com/
https://mxroute.com/
https://zoho.com/
And of course Google and Microsoft.
Bing.com, Because Its Not Google, will turn up dozens of options.
For those of you that do not have their own domain, you should, you can always take that with you.
Thank you for being a loyal Tuffmail customer.
John Capo
Tuffmail.com