Will I change my advice about e-mail self-hosting? I’ve said before that small companies without an experienced IT person should think carefully about hosting their own e-mail and Web servers. Hosting ...

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 ...

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 ...

To an organization, e-mail is arguably the most important Internet service. It cuts down the costs and hassle of communicating with people around the world. But if you want more flexibility and ...

In the past, many SMBs were content to let their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) handle e-mail services. But now they're interested in running mail servers onsite, due to the widespread adoption of ...

Even as social networking continues to gain in popularity, email remains the undisputed workhorse of messaging, far eclipsing all other forms of electronic communication. Email administration can be a ...

A computer in a network that provides "post office" facilities. It stores incoming mail for distribution to users (message store) and forwards outgoing mail through the appropriate channel (message ...

Jonathan Yarden recently explained why he thinks the time has come to find a replacement for SMTP. In that column, he proposed a solution for SMTP's security problem: registered e-mail servers. Now, ...

If you regularly encounter delivery problems when sending email messages, your mail server might be on a blacklist. Large corporations and email servers use email blacklists in an attempt to reduce ...