Optusnet email issues - resolved?

As of this morning it appears that Optusnet have retired their own (old and insecure) mail servers in favour of transferring email accounts to The Messaging Company (TMC).

And as our earlier deliverability issue with TMC was resolved some time ago, both our hosted websites and ourselves should once again be able to deliver emails to Optusnet addresses.

Based on previous events, Optusnet email customers will now have a grace period to decide whether to sign up to TMCs paid email hosting package, or move elsewhere and lose their current email address.

On a related note, Chirp now offers domain-based email hosting and can recommend a range of third-party solutions at various prices.