Articles on Email


Post Office Begs to Cut Saturday Delivery as Email Further Impacts USPS Income  2,268 Views (This article has 1 comment)
The Postmaster General has said that the United States Postal Service may have to cut out one day's delivery a week as more and more people turn to the email inbox, instead of the post office, to deliver their correspondence.

Email Inbox of Virginia Tech Massacre Killer Seung-Hui Cho Released  1,398 Views (comments)
It's been a year and a half, almost to the day, that the Virginia Tech Massacre happened. On April 16th, 2007, VA Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 innocent students and faculty over the course of two hours. Now emails released from Cho's email account at VA Tech - both emails to Cho, and his own email responses - have been released and are available to read. These emails show cries for help, and an insight into a troubled students. Could the VA Tech massacre have been avoided with the right intervention?

What Your Email Address Says About You  1,934 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Researchers in Germany have come out with a very interesting study about what your choice of email address says about you. We've already talked about what the domain of your email address says about you (such as do you send from aol.com, hotmail.com, yourowndomain.com, etc.), but this new study looks specifically at the username side of your email address. Such as, are you "onehottie@", "buttoneddown@", or "uptight@"? In fact, the title subject is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de (that is the German arm of Hotmail).

How to ReDownload Email from Gmail After You’ve Already Downloaded It  4,376 Views (This article has 3 comments)
Did you know that if you lose some of your email from your mail client, and you pop your mail from Gmail, that you can actually re-download your email from Gmail again? Not only that, but with this trick you can redownload email from specific dates - meaning you can re-download from Gmail just the email received on the dates that you want!

Is Gmail Rejecting Your POP Password? You’re Not Crazy and You’re Not Alone  3,932 Views (This article has 5 comments)
If you retrieve your email via POP from Gmail, you may on occasion find that Gmail completely rejects your password. Now, having Gmail rejecting your POP password can be very disconcerting, not to mention frustrating! Your mail client keeps prompting you for your Gmail password, you keep entering the password that you know is the right password, and Gmail keeps rejecting it. It's enough to drive you crazy.

Employees with Mobile Work Email Can Sue for Overtime, Warn Legal Experts  1,689 Views (comments)
Employees who read and send work email after hours - particularly using an employer-provided mobile device such as a Blackberry - may end up suing their employer for overtime hours incurred while performing work-related email tasks on the devices, outside of the course of the normal business day.

New CAN-SPAM Rules Effective This Month Require Single Action Opt-Out, Designated Senders, and More  1,828 Views (comments)
Four new rules have been issued by the Federal Trade Commission which augment and amend the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. These four new rules amending the CAN SPAM Act take effect this month (June, 2008), and affect all senders of commercial email who have an email list of any size. Here's what the new CANSPAM Act rules are. For a full explanation of what you must do in order to comply with the new rules (including the complicated "Designated Sender" rule), you can download a recording of ISIPP's teleseminar, describing the rules and how to comply in detail, for just $39.97. [Download the recording of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 new rules teleseminar here! $39.97, 49 minutes long]

Gmail Available in Many Different Languages  3,957 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Did you know that people from all over the world use Google Gmail, and not all people want to (or can) use Gmail in English? Welcome to Gmail for the global community, because Gmail . com is now distinctly international. Why have your Gmail sign in greet you in English when your Gmail .com account can be set up for any one of dozens of languages? Quiere correo Gmail? No problema! In fact, the top searches relating to Gmail these days are in foreign languages! Speaking of which, can anybody tell us what these mean?: gmail ustvari nov naslov, gmail geslo, gmail prijava geslo, gmail raziskovalec, gmail sprememba gesla, pozabljeno geslo za gmail, zamenjati geslo gmail, sprememba gesla gmail, gmail prijava, gesla gmail, prijava v gmail, or ustvari gmail?

Charter Communications Accidentally Deletes 14000 Customer Email Accounts  2,658 Views (comments)
Have you tried to access your Charter.com email only to find that it's all gone missing? Can't even log into your Charter email account? Have you suddenly discovered that your Charter email is lost, and your account shut down? Well, you're not alone! In fact, this past week Charter accidentally deleted some 14,000 customer email accounts!

Get Letters to Santa and Letters from Santa Online! Get a Telephone Call from Santa Too!  4,079 Views (This article has 4 comments)
Want to send a letter to Santa, or get a letter from Santa? Well guess what! Santa is one hip dude, and is now Internet savvy! That's right - you can now request Santa letters right online - or even send Santa letter via email! You can even request a telephone call from Santa!

Yahoo Mail Adds Integrated Interface to Send and Receive Email and Text Messages to and from Cell Phones  5,032 Views (This article has 1 comment)
Yahoo has just rolled out a brand new version of Yahoomail, which allows users to both send email to cell phones, and receive email from cell phones, through a text message like interface.

One in Four Americans Take Their Email to Bed with Them  2,873 Views (This article has 2 comments)
A new survey has found that Americans are - by their own admission - more addicted to email than ever. The email addiction manifests in some interesting ways, including that more than 25% of all Americans admit to taking their email to bed with them.

Federal Court Ruling Boosts Laws About Email Privacy  11,738 Views (This article has 2 comments)
In a Federal ruling this week, personal email privacy laws received a shot in the arm, as the Court ruled that laws about email privacy preclude the government from demanding access to an individual's email from their ISP without notice to the individual, unless they have a warrant based on probable cause.

How to Change the Quote Attribution Line in the Mac’s Mail.app Mail Program  3,365 Views (This article has 2 comments)
If you are anything like me, you quickly got tired of having to delete the "On such-and-such a date, so-and-so wrote:" attribution quote line every ..single ..time ..you replied to an email in Mac's native mail program, Mail.app. Here's how to change it.
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