As you may know already, I have decided to retire my Gmail account and one of the email services that I consider using as an alternative is ProtonMail. The service puts a […]
Mailbox.org is a German email service that puts a strong focus on privacy and security. Among the features are full inbox encryption as well as minimal logging and retention of logs. The […]
I'm an avid user of the Thunderbird desktop email client and even though development has been put on a backburner by Mozilla, it is offering all the features that I require. What […]
You are being tracked on the Internet no matter where you go unless you are very careful what you do and also in regards to your data. One common form is email […]
MailTrack is a free browser extension for the Chrome web browser that tracks if recipients have read email messages that you sent using Google's email service Gmail. The Chrome extension is available […]
Whenever I forward emails in the Thunderbird email client all headers of that email are attached to it at the top. This means that the actual message is not displayed above the […]
As popular as Microsoft's email service Outlook.com already is, it is still playing catch-up in several areas when compared to Google's Gmail service. That does not mean that Outlook does not offer […]
The Printing Tools extension for the Thunderbird email client improves how emails are printed on the system. If you print out emails regularly or just occasionally using Thunderbird, you know that you […]
It can be quite beneficial to move select Gmail email attachments directly to a cloud storage provider such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft's OneDrive. The reason is simple: usually, you get […]
If you are using an online web mail service, it is often rather difficult to switch to another one. Say, you are using Gmail or Yahoo Mail primarily and want to switch […]
If you have visited the Yahoo Mail website recently in Firefox you may have noticed a small notification bar appearing at the top of the page. The notification is a question, and […]
Google and Microsoft offered free custom email domain support in the past. You could set up Google Apps to use a custom domain name that you owned for emails, and Microsoft offered […]
Mailbox.org is a new email service by the German company Heinlein Support GMBH which features several interesting security and privacy related features, and based on Open-Xchange version 7.4.2. The homepage of the […]
Newsletters, periodical social networking updates, information about new posts, and other automated messages that you receive regularly are either welcome information or something that you tend to ignore. I do not use […]
The service Streak has been making the rounds lately. It is more or less an addon for Gmail that improves Google's mail service significantly in many ways. You can create so called […]
Emails are probably one of the easiest data types that third-parties can monitor. There are plenty of reasons for that, from being stored on third-party servers to the lack of proper encryption. […]
One of Google's primary goals, besides knowing more about you than your better half, is to integrate the company's Google+ service into its other services. Since Google+ is not as popular as […]
Most email clients come with settings that allow you to define whether you want images to be displayed directly when you open emails, or not. While it is sure more comfortable if […]
Yahoo Mail, like most email providers, offers options to filter or block email messages that you receive. The difference between filtering emails and blocking them is easy to explain: A filter moves […]
Email without the use of proper encryption is inherently insecure. The main reason why the majority is still not encrypting their emails is convenience, or a lack of thereof. We have seen […]
Yahoo launched a redesign of the company's email service Yahoo Mail in October 2013. Advertised as an elegant and intuitive version of the service, it introduced a complete redesign of the website. […]
Google's email service Gmail provided you with two different view modes for quite some time. The default view mode that is currently using quite an assortment of technologies, colors, and other features, […]
I have the feeling that many companies have been pushing towards web-only services in the past two or so years. While there have been online services before, like Gmail or Yahoo Mail […]
Most email providers and programs nowadays do not display images and other data linked to third party servers by default when you open emails on their websites or in email clients. If […]
The new Gmail interface that divides emails into different groups such as primary, promotions, social or forums has been up for some time now. If you are using Gmail on the web, […]
If you are using the Thunderbird email desktop client on your system, you may have noticed that it does not really reveal a lot about connections that it makes. While you do […]
The Google Takeout service has been created to provide users of Google services with the means to download data to their local system. The service is not covering all Google products, but […]
Sending an email to someone can reveal more information about you than you may want to reveal. Whenever you send an email to someone, so-called header information are send along. These header […]
If you are using a web mail service such as Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo Mail, you have probably come up with your own way on how to deal with email attachments. Most […]
The relaunch of Yahoo Mail did not go down well with some users of the email service for one reason or the other. From changes to fonts and line heights over the […]
Back in June, when the weather was still warm around these parts, we talked about the integration of Gmail with Evernote -- combining what could be considered the best of web-based email […]
There are not that many good free cross-platform desktop email clients left. If you would have to list them, it is almost certain that you would mention the Thunderbird program, as it […]
Both the Thunderbird email client as well as the SeaMonkey Internet browser have taken a backseat when it comes to development resource distribution over at Mozilla. The products are clearly not as […]
If you have a lot of emails stored in the Thunderbird email client, you may have noticed two things: that the emails are taking quite the chunk of disk space, and that […]
Yahoo! launched a redesigned version of Yahoo Mail two days ago and it caught part of the user base of the service by surprise. While the changes look good on paper for […]
Yahoo rolled out a new mail interface yesterday that brought several Mail Plus features to free account users. That's a good thing for the most part, but with every update there are […]
If you have followed the news today or opened your Yahoo! email inbox on your computer or in a mobile application, you may have noticed that things have changed quite a bit, […]
Most free email services require you to sign in to the account at least once in a given time interval to keep the account active. Microsoft for instance requires users to sign […]
Google some years ago introduced "+" aliases to Gmail which enabled you to use address variations without changing your email address at all. It allows you to add additional text to the […]
Google back in April 2013 changed the Gmail compose interface in a significant matter. Instead of opening it in its own page on the Gmail website, it now opened as a small […]
