POP3, or Post Office Protocol 3, is the protocol used in most types of email accounts to control how email is delivered. When you get your email account from your ISP, they provide instructions for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Note: the original intention of gpg-mailgate was to encrypt incoming mail so that it wouldn't be stored unencrypted on your mail server (although it'd still have been transmitted in plaintext). This ...