A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were no graphical e-mail clients. So what you had to do to get your mail was to connect a server with telnet over the network, or directly over a modem ...

New Zealand developer Firetrust Ltd. has announced that its server-side spam filtering tool MailWasher Pro is now available for Mac and Linux. The software enables users to view new e-mails on the ...

Oh, spam. There is so much of it. Some estimates say that 90 percent of email sent around the world is spam. Sometimes it’s hard to sort the wheat from the chaff; or the ham from the spam. It’s been a ...

It has taken only four years for spam to become the bane of business but, as small and medium businesses (SMBs) are finding, spam can be killed before it enters inboxes with the use of a hosted ...

With spam and e-mail worms on the rise, it's boom-time for the makers of antispam and antivirus solutions. New anti-spam laws in Europe and the US have done little to solve the problem, and this ...

If Gmail’s spam and newsletter filters are letting too much slip through, or if you use a private email service with a bad spam filter, then try this solution: quarantine all email until the sender ...

Want to stop email spam? MailWasher is a tool that lets you delete spam and malicious emails before they reach your Windows computer. It is an effective tool for preventing spam and junk mail from ...

Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warned this week. Aaron Greenspan ...

AT&T WorldNet this week activated a risky spam-filtering technique that it shortly had to defuse after subscribers discovered they were losing legitimate e-mail. Late Wednesday night, the Web access ...

The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

Documents recently obtained by the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch show that in December 2010, then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff were having difficulty communicating ...

Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. Johnson, 24, an ...