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 ...

The Simple Mail Transport Protocol, or SMTP, is a standard for how computers talk to each other to send email. If you're sending email using Microsoft Outlook, your computer may connect to your ...

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 will be up-front and say that I have always preferred a well configured Linux Sendmail server when it came to the mail server and operating system of choice. While I have dabbled with various ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched HTTPS-encryption initiative Let's Encrypt two years ago with Mozilla and Cisco. Now it's turning its attention to email servers with a new project ...

Even as social networking continues to gain in popularity, email remains the undisputed workhorse of messaging, far eclipsing all other forms of electronic communication. Email administration can be a ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Here’s the thing: for all the talk about her email server, Hillary Clinton did ...

Inability to delete mail from Comcast servers Yesterday we covered a reader report that OS X 10.3's Mail app is unable to delete retrieved mail from Comcast's email servers, requiring the user to ...

Oracle's recent foray into the e-mail server market, where it faces steep competition from Microsoft and IBM, is starting to pay off, the company says. The database software maker had signed 500 deals ...

For ten days in March, millions were caught in the same massive spam campaign. Each email looked like it came from someone the recipient knew: the spammer took stolen email addresses and passwords, ...

A conservative group won a court victory this week when a federal judge ordered more fact-finding in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. In his ruling Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Royce ...