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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 ...

Exim servers, estimated to run nearly 57% of the internet's email servers, are now under a heavy barrage of attacks from hacker groups trying to exploit a recent security flaw in order to take over ...

Email: It's been around for decades, and people are still confused about how it works--and for good reason. Setting up and troubleshooting an email account can be an irritating venture. Recently, we ...

Many businesses, small or large, decide to set up internal Web servers dedicated to employee use. SMTP servers allow employees to sync email client software on their workstations to their mailboxes on ...

hMailServer is one of the best free email servers for Windows computers. We will show you how to create a Private Email Server for free with hMailServer. These services do provide convenience because ...

In this article I'll talk about the hardware and software components you'll need to build an e-mail system based on either Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or an Open Systems e-mail server such as ...

The Simple Mail Transport Protocol, or SMTP, is a standard for how computers talk to each other to send email. If you're sending email using Microsoft Outlook, your computer may connect to your ...

Imagine the Internet had begun its life as a proprietary network from a major software vendor rather than evolved as a distributed network shared by researchers. It’s a future that almost came to pass ...

Oracle's recent foray into the e-mail server market, where it faces steep competition from Microsoft and IBM, is starting to pay off, the company says. The database software maker had signed 500 deals ...

I will be up-front and say that I have always preferred a well configured Linux Sendmail server when it came to the mail server and operating system of choice. While I have dabbled with various ...