To send and receive messages, your email client transmits your username and password over the Internet to your mail server. By default, this information is sent unencrypted, which opens you up to the ...

Though e-mail has made strong inroads, most companies still consider "snail" mail to be a crucial part of their operations. Contracts, paychecks, invoices and more all routinely travel through the ...

Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. Johnson, 24, an ...

Barracuda Networks last week released a new version of its anti-spam appliance that prevents unwanted e-mail and viruses from being sent out of a corporate network while keeping sensitive data, trade ...

I work for an ISP and occasionally deal with customers who swear up and down that they need *our* outgoing email server to make email that we do not host or provide work. Example: Customer has ...

I've currently got my e-mail hosted at iCloud, but I don't use the icloud e-mail address. My public e-mail address is a forwarding service which simply redirects to wherever I tell it to, in this case ...

My collegue Jim posted a column on “web traffic overload” http://www.eebeat.com/?p=5375 which got me to think, what if they (service provider or even the ...

Email started as a way to send a file between early internetworked computers with little checking about who was sending what. Despite the 60-odd years that have passed, that’s more or less what ...