Microsoft on Monday said that they started to improve the email service Hotmail with security updates to protect legit user accounts from being hijacked. The term hijacker refers to malicious users who manage to get access to email accounts of Hotmail users, either by brute force, phishing or other forms of social engineering. Like Microsoft, [...]

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Have you ever asked yourself how you did end up with the email account that you are currently using? Chance is that you have at least one account at one of the three most popular web based email service providers Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Hotmail. This question might have become insignificant in recent [...]

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Many Firefox users do not know that they can change the default email client in the web browser easily. What even fewer know is that it is even possible to not only select desktop email clients but also the web based email providers Yahoo Mail or Gmail as the default provider for all mailto links. [...]

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Sending large attachments via email is a big no-no unless the recipient is aware of the email’s size and has given the ok. There are other means than email to send large files to recipients. It would for example be possible to upload the file to one of the myriads of file hosts that offer [...]

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Microsoft has announced a change to the Hotmail email provider service that they offer. The feature to access Hotmail accounts using a POP3 connection will be gradually enabled for all Hotmail accounts. Gradually meaning that only users from some countries like Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom are currently able to connect to Hotmail via [...]

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Disposable email addresses provide the user with an easy to access temporary email address that they can use to register to services on the Internet without having to think about protecting their main email address from spam. While most Internet services are legit and do not sell the email addresses of their users some do [...]

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The idea behind Otherinbox is to provide an easy to manage email service for marketing offers and all those community websites and networks. The service provides a web interface and an email address to every user who signs up for the service. The main selling point of Otherinbox is the automatic generation of mail filters [...]

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I covered the email provider Akapost about ten days ago and liked what it had to offer. It was not your usual Gmail / Yahoo Mail kind of provider but one that would put an end to email spam to your mail inbox. This was achieved by acting as a proxy between the user’s email [...]

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Akapost is an Email services provider that protects your own email addresses with an ingenious system. The senders email address is shown when emails are received. Akapost acts as an Exchange station between your computer and that of the recipient by exchanging your email address with a selected one from Akapost (via Archer and Anewmorning). [...]

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