Have you ever been waiting for an important email only to find out it went into your spam folder? This can be frustrating if you're waiting on correspondence from someone, but it can also be ...

QUESTION: Why can’t I get an important email message containing a link that I need but other messages from the same company come through just fine? ANSWER: Few things in the tech world are as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Readers ask Tech+ about spam. Q: I use Hotmail (both free and subscription). My problem is that I am receiving between 15-20 sexually oriented junk emails ...

Some ask for monetary donations. Some suggest you will be locked out of your account if you do not click this link. Some promise to enhance or slim down various body parts. We’re all familiar with ...

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Email is dying. Email is not dying. Regardless of where you stand in the ongoing debate, one thing is certain: Unsolicited emails are alive and well. Commonly known as spam emails, junk messages about ...

Tickets to an upcoming sporting event. A receipt from the Nike store for running shoes I bought last weekend. A local newsletter I open every day. Those emails and 82 others were among the legitimate ...

Spam is the scourge of the Internet. From phishing messages to malicious attachments and links to viruses, spam affects billions of email users each year. Although spam messages are at a 12-year low, ...

Email delivery is the dismal science of online marketing. You may devise a brilliant email campaign, only to find it fails because of delivery issues. But you can avoid that nightmare by measuring ...

The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.