Those with long memories may recall that in the early days of the internet and for many years into it, there were two methods of retrieving email from a server: POP3 and IMAP. (POP and POP2 were long ...

Email: It's been around for decades, and people are still confused about how it works--and for good reason. Setting up and troubleshooting an email account can be an irritating venture. Recently, we ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched HTTPS-encryption initiative Let's Encrypt two years ago with Mozilla and Cisco. Now it's turning its attention to email servers with a new project ...

To an organization, e-mail is arguably the most important Internet service. It cuts down the costs and hassle of communicating with people around the world. But if you want more flexibility and ...

Linux inherited many things from UNIX, but one of the most important is the idea that while small programs perform modest functions individually, together they combine to make one powerful system. You ...

Even as social networking continues to gain in popularity, email remains the undisputed workhorse of messaging, far eclipsing all other forms of electronic communication. Email administration can be a ...

Jonathan Yarden recently explained why he thinks the time has come to find a replacement for SMTP. In that column, he proposed a solution for SMTP's security problem: registered e-mail servers. Now, ...

The Simple Mail Transport Protocol, or SMTP, is a standard for how computers talk to each other to send email. If you're sending email using Microsoft Outlook, your computer may connect to your ...

Inability to delete mail from Comcast servers Yesterday we covered a reader report that OS X 10.3's Mail app is unable to delete retrieved mail from Comcast's email servers, requiring the user to ...