My advice: don't run your own mail server, especially if you're a tyro. If you think that's going to protect you from state-sponsored snooping, you're living in a fantasy world. Still, some good ...

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I talk about mutt a lot in this column, if you hadn't noticed. For me, in this day and age of large graphical mail programs and Web-based mail applications, you still can't beat the speed, power and ...

Is the iCloud in fact the mail server i.e. holds the original mail or is it a duplicate I may switch off and still have my mails retainable from any imap mail client? What happens if I switch off the ...

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 ...

Apple's Mail e-mail client supports a number of different messaging protocols including POP and IMAP, but if you convert an existing account from POP to IMAP then you may run into a problem in which e ...

A computer in a network that provides "post office" facilities. It stores incoming mail for distribution to users (message store) and forwards outgoing mail through the appropriate channel (message ...