I’ve used Apple Mail for years, but the recent addition of inbox categories was a mixed bag for me until I started using one ...

It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs. And now it’s happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool.

Apple’s Mail app — the Mac one, not the iOS one — has a secret weapon for automatically cleaning up your inbox. It’s called Rules, and you can use it to process all arriving emails, so you don’t have ...

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For a messaging medium that is reportedly dead, there sure is a lot of interest in e-mail these days. Why? E-mail is the stickiest of applications. For Web sites like AOL and Yahoo, e-mail alone can ...

Dealing with e-mail is something of a Sisyphean task, with new messages rolling in faster than you can respond to the old ones, and the perhaps counter-productive tendency to use e-mail as a task and ...

In Apple Mail, finding email messages from certain contacts can be made easier by giving them a "VIP" status. Short for Very Important Person, VIPs are identified in your inbox by a star next to the ...

Spark is a fully-customizable inbox organizer for power users with multiple email accounts that easily screens unknown senders and sorts e-mail into categories of importance. Many of us have multiple ...

Reader Claire uses Windows Mail (a.k.a. Windows Live Mail) to manage e-mail from her Gmail account. (Smart! Sounds just like what I recommended last week.) However, when she clicks on Sent Mail, the ...

E-mail has become the preferred way for presidential candidates to stir up their supporters, but the process generally misses its potential as an information conduit in favor of developing the new ...

50 major US retailers sent 42B marketing emails in 28 days. 80% used tracking pixels to monitor clicks, devices, and location. Proton Mail calls the tactics "an engineered assault on privacy." A new ...