When it comes to the attitudes with which various people approach the concept of email we find highly fragmented groups, even within the confines of such a relatively small group like techies. Some of those who use and enjoy technology on a daily basis see email as a welcome and acceptable part of that electronic [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services

When I was working in tech support for a large German financial corporation I regularly had to deal with support requests by customers who received phishing emails. It took a lot to convince the majority of customers that those phishing emails were not sent by the company, but by criminals. Especially fake email addresses were [...]

Categories: Email, Google

The final version of the desktop email client Thunderbird 5.0 has been released by Mozilla. The new version has not been publicly announced yet on the official Mozilla website, and Thunderbird users who are already running the program will not receive update notifications at this point in time. It is however only a matter of [...]

Categories: Email

If you have a web based email account, chance is that you either use Yahoo Mail, Google Mail or Microsoft Hotmail for that account. There are hundreds of smaller email providers, but those are the big three. Microsoft recently announced new features and improvements for their Hotmail email service on the Inside Windows Live blog. [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services

I’m not a huge fan of the rapid release process of the Firefox web browser or Google Chrome. Not so much as a user but as someone who is interested in following the development of a web browser, and a webmaster who likes to write about it. A new version every three months or so, [...]

Categories: Email

When you look at the top five web browsers on today’s Internet, which are undoubtedly Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari you will notice that all but one reduce their functionality to Internet browsing. Opera is the only browser of the five that offers an integrated email client. The idea behind SeaMonkey is [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

Email archiving software is a standalone application which in addition to archiving email messages offers fast search of the information stored in these messages through indexing with the required security. Now-a-days email systems provide more features than just transferring messages or simple notes. Many government and non-government agencies, small and large businesses, use email systems [...]

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Thunderbird supports different folder view modes. From the standard listing of all folders to a unified folder listing to a listing of all root folders with unread messages. Especially the unread folder view is handy to display only folders with unread messages. The view mode may on the other hand be insufficient for users who [...]

Categories: Email

The reaction of web developers to Facebook’s introduction of the send button last week has been decidedly mixed. But no matter your view on the subject, it’s worth knowing how and why the button might be useful on your site. Tapping into the marketing potential of the large and active Facebook user base in any [...]

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