APOP  (Authenticated Post Office Protocol) is an extension of the traditional POP used for email authentication. The POP allows one’s username and password to be authenticated with an email server. It does so by transmitting the user’s account password in plain text over the Internet, which puts his/her security at risk. The APOP encrypts passwords when transmitting it over a network or the Internet. The extended protocol keeps others from using password sniffing or other hacking techniques to steal email passwords when they are transmitted. How does APOP Work? Both Read More

In this society, almost everyone has a cell phone. To call someone on their cell phone, however, a cell phone number is required. Unless the caller knows the recipient personally, finding his/her cell phone number can be quite frustrating. This article will list a number of ways that the reader can find someone's cell phone number. Local Phonebook If the recipient lives nearby, one source to check for a cell phone number would be the local phonebook. Phonebooks do not always have cell phone numbers listed but it is certainly Read More

Image spamming is a new method of email spamming. The text is imbedded in image or picture files, which most anti-spam software ignore. They are not detected as spam simply because they are pictures and not text. Blocking image spam is proving difficult, as images and pictures (whether as attachments or embedded in the body of the message) are an expected part of a person's daily email intake – for business reasons (e.g., company logos, product shots, electronic newsletters, etc.) or personal purposes (family photos, vacation shots and so on). Read More

There is generally no way to recover deleted emails from Outlook Express. However, there are some exceptions to this. Outlook users may normally delete each email after reading it. While doing this, the user may discover that he/she accidentally deleted an email that was important. If his/her Outlook Express account is set up to automatically delete emails when Outlook Express is closed and he/she has not closed Outlook Express, all he/she has to do is go into deleted emails and retrieve the desired email. If Outlook Express is set up Read More

It can be very frustrating when mass forwards clutter one’s e-mail inbox. Sometimes simply replying to the forwards and asking to be removed from the list is effective, but when it is not there is the option of blocking the e-mail address that the forwards are coming from. Blocking an e-mail address is not as effective for spam as it is for forwards. People who send spam can use a new address (domain) for nearly every e-mail they send out. Only block e-mail addresses of individuals who send e-mails that Read More

A spam filter is a piece of software that filters incoming email to separate unwanted email–junk email commonly referred to as spam–and normal, desirable email. Spam is something that no one wants because, while it is annoying, it can also hold viruses, malware and other programs that can do considerable damage to one's computer. Therefore, a spam filter is an important asset to the computer's longevity. A spam filter works by comparing certain details of an email to a long list of rules. For example, it checks out the title Read More

There are three basic ways to regain access to a Yahoo email account when someone loses or forgets his/her Yahoo email password: Reset the Yahoo email password online Recover the Yahoo email password from the web browser Recover the stored Yahoo email password from the Windows Registry Reset the Yahoo Email Password The easiest way to recover a Yahoo email password is to go to the Yahoo! Sign-in Problems page. After going to the above mentioned link, follow these steps carefully: Select I forgot my password and click Next. Enter Read More

Hotmail is a free (i.e. advertiser supported) web based e-mail system that Microsoft Corporation provides. Those who no longer use their Hotmail account can delete it so that people who send them e-mail will receive messages telling them that the Hotmail e-mail address is no longer valid. How to Close a Hotmail Account Log into the Microsoft Hotmail account. Go to the Microsoft Hotmail Close your MSN account page. Select Close my MSN account and delete my credentials. Press Close MSN.com, Microsoft’s all-in-one online network, has been completely revamped and Read More

POP3 is an internet-based standard for retrieval of e-mail by a user from an e-mail server. POP stands for Post Office Protocol. The "3" means it is the third revision of the standard; POP1 and POP2 were made obsolete by POP3, which has been popular for many years now. For users, there are two primary e-mail operations: receiving and sending. When you send mail, your server first checks to make sure you are a valid user, queues up the message to be sent, and then contacts the recipient's mail server. Read More

In this day and age, most people are exchanging the pen and paper for a computer with a word processing progamme. Nowadays, the alternative to sending messages via snail mail is the use of the Internet to send electronic mail. Sometimes people wish to remain anonymous when sending messages. This comes in handy for various reasons, whether for privacy protection, to avoid embarrassment of any sort, or to voice an opinion without fear of direct retaliation from another party. This is done through use of remailers, which, in essence, are Read More