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 ...

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 ...

Outgoing mail for Microsoft email programs is automatically routed through the Microsoft Exchange Server. It is possible to change this server to something else and to stop outgoing email from using ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...