POP, the Post Office Protocol, has been the long-standing mail retrieval protocol for TCP/IP networks. But it’s started showing its age at a time when users are becoming more mobile, accessing mail ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

My girlfriend is constantly running over quota on her UNIX account. She uses Pine and it's set so that her inbox is at /var/mail and her other folders are in her personal account. I'm trying to access ...

Email client applications use Internet Message Access Protocol to open email messages stored on a remote Web server. For example, you can set up email client apps like Apple Mail to view business ...

I've been using Outlook Express since I installed XP, which gets the job done, but isn't nearly perfect. For one thing, I can't rename the Sent Items folder.<BR><BR>Anyway, all I really want is a ...

Businesses looking to maintain an Internet presence can use Yahoo's services to host their websites and email. While Yahoo's Web mail program is well known, they also allow you to connect to your ...

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 ...

Do you find it increasingly difficult to deal with the daily flood of e-mail? Do you wish your e-mail client could share information with other Mac programs? If so, it may be time for you to choose a ...

A recent surge of worthy new email clients offers Mac users some of the best choices they’ve ever had for managing their mail. With a panoply of clever features and new ideas, these contenders have ...

I might be a dinosaur, but email is still my jam. I prefer communicating via email to any other means of interaction (other than face-to-face). Email is efficient, used globally, isn't OS-dependent, ...

If you use two different devices (i.e. a phone and your computer) or different apps to access your email and your email messages seem to disappear sometimes, you're not imagining things. They are ...