E-mail is old and complex. It’s the oldest still-recognizable component of the Internet, with its modern incarnation having coalesced out of several different decades-old messaging technologies ...

There are more pragmatic than pernicious reasons why a government official would want to use personal e-mail and their own server People bypass the careful arrangements made for them by IT departments ...

When it works correctly, email can feel seamless. But a failure reveals its two separate components: one kind of server handles your mail app retrieving messages; another sends them out. These ...

I've been running my own e-mail servers for decades. After all, back in the 80s I was helping run NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's e-mail systems and let me tell you in those days it wasn't easy!

Configure IT Quick: Set up a basic e-mail server with Postfix as the MTA Your email has been sent For all the apparent simplicity of e-mail, setting up a mail server is one of the most difficult ...

Choosing a mail server is never an easy task. Email management itself is a complex endeavor, and this is reflected in the wide variety of tools we choose to create, edit, send, organize and reply to ...

E-mail is more pervasive these days than the business letter was just a couple of decades ago. Having a reliable e-mail server is crucial to most businesses. However, many companies—particularly ...

As she was being confirmed as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton contacted Colin Powell to ask him about his use of a Blackberry while in the same role. According to a Federal Bureau of ...

Setting up a home server running an open-source operating system is a popular and useful activity. Useful in what ways, you may ask. You could use it to run a website (I use a home server to power my ...

A warning that hackers are exploiting vulnerable email servers doesn't qualify as an unusual event in general. But when that warning comes from the National Security Agency, and the hackers are some ...