When it works correctly, email can feel seamless. But a failure reveals its two separate components: one kind of server handles your mail app retrieving messages; another sends them out. These ...

For years, POP (Post Office Protocol) email has been a thorn in my side. Apple's email service uses the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) protocol for email, as do many other email services.

POP3, or Post Office Protocol 3, is the protocol used in most types of email accounts to control how email is delivered. When you get your email account from your ISP, they provide instructions for ...

Microsoft just added IMAP support to Outlook.com e-mail, which allows you to keep your e-mail synchronized when using third-party clients. We'll show you how to set it up on Apple's Mail app. Ed Rhee ...

gpg-mailgate is a small content filter for Postfix + web interface that allows any user to upload PGP keys to your server (and confirm email address), and then will begin encrypting any outgoing mail ...

Mail theft is a growing problem, prompting the U.S. Postal Service to deploy some 12,000 new high-security mailboxes at post offices. But what can you do to protect deliveries to your mailbox? Those ...

There's a new way for you to put a pause in your daily grind: The e-mail prioritzer enables you to stop getting new e-mails, and sort out the stuff that's already there. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in ...

Internet service providers, Web hosts and other email services store messages associated with all email accounts to a computer called a mail server. Email providers have both incoming and outgoing ...