If you are still using Windows Live Mail then you are exposing yourself to at least 8 years of evolved security risks. The most recent (read newest/latest) version of Live Mail is from 2011. Microsoft ended support for it that long ago. That means that the most recent threats it knows about come from 2011. The bad guys have 8 years of new stuff that can cause your live mail quite some headaches. On top of that, the good guys have evolved such that Live Mail may not know how t

A while back I received an email that made me instantly suspicious: Dear Principal, We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia. which mainly deal with the global companies' domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right protection in Asia. Currently, we have a very important issue needing to confirm with your company. On December 13,20xx, we received an application.One company named "FengNin Group Inc" wanted to apply for registering

You may have noticed from my other articles and blog posts that I am no longer a fan of email clients (programs that "do" email for you). All of them store your emails in some form of database or proprietary structure that quite often makes backing them up very difficult. These email databases tend to just get bigger and bigger and I have to tell you that massively oversized Outlook PST files have caused me, and many other people, many, many problems. Once your email database

Every now and then I get asked about setting up a secure email system for a customer. Pretty much every time I have explained the ramifications to a customer, and they've pressed on anyway, they've invariably given up and gone back to regular email or sending private stuff by good old snail-mail. Without going into technical details, sending secure emails requires that all parties involved are playing the same game. By that I mean, they will need to understand what the secure

I haven't personally used Microsoft Outlook, the proper email client program, for about 10 years. As I've ranted about in the past, doing battle with it on a daily basis ended up not being fun, so I ditched it. Sadly I do still have to deal with it occasionally for my customers and I still don't like it. In fact, the latest incarnation of it may in fact be the worst and most frustrating one yet. The one thing it should do easiest and best IS the most frustrating piece of crap

Many email programs (clients) and web mail systems have had the option to bundle your emails by "thread" or "conversation" (as opposed to discreet emails that show up as they arrive). This is where the only email you see in your inbox is the last one you received within the context of any particular set of communications with your recipients. This should not be mistaken for the replies of emails that you see at the bottom of any particular running email correspondence you ma