Setting up your email client program
Before you can use your email account you must set up your email program. The following give step-by-step instructions for setting up most common mail programs.
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Email security
This white paper provides useful background information on email security issues. It will help you examine the security threats facing your corporate email system and determine what kind of email security solution your company needs.
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Howto Test your SMTP server for open relay
If your SMTP server accepts incoming TCP connections from the Internet, your server can be used by spammers as a mail relay engine. Mail relays can distribute their messages (SPAM) all over the world using your server as an open relay.
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Is it Time to Start Encrypting Your E-mail?
Longing for a little privacy? Thinking it might be time to start encrypting your e-mail? This article looks at the pros and cons, examines e-mail encryption technologies, and provides some tips for getting the most out of e-mail encryption.
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME is a specification for enhancing the capabilities of standard Internet electronic mail. It offers a simple standardized way to represent and encode a wide variety of media types for transmission via email.
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Protecting your Email from Viruses and Other MalWare
Virus writers, who used to spread their virtual "diseases" via infected floppies and network shares, have seized the opportunity posed by email programs that support attached files, HTML messages, and embedded scripts to send viruses and other malicious software (called "malware") to hundreds or thousands of people with just a few keystrokes. In this article, we will look at how email viruses work and what you can do to protect your computer and network from them.
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Protecting your network against email threats: How to block email viruses and attacks
This white paper describes various methods used by email viruses and worms to penetrate a protected network. Such methods include attachment files containing harmful code, social engineering attacks, crafted MIME headers, malicious use of HTML Script and similar technologies. A URL is provided where you can test whether your email system is vulnerable to threats like these. This document also examines the ways through which email can be sanitized and filtered of malicious code.
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S/MIME – issues of interoperability
If correctly implemented, the S/MIME standard seems an attractive proposition for providing simple signature and encryption ‘envelope’ functions for e-mail and the attachments going with it. However, despite the interoperability challenges of EEMA and others over the last four years it remains a challenge to get one e-mail provider working successfully with another.
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The problems with Secure Email
Find out why "Silver Bullet" Email security is problematic. Learn to fully protect your data simply and securely while avoiding complex interactions between proprietary systems.
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Understanding E-mail Spoofing
A favorite technique of spammers and other “bad guys” is to “spoof” their return e-mail addresses, making it look as if the mail came from someone else. In effect, this is a form of identity theft, as the sender pretends to be someone else in order to persuade the recipient to do something (from simply opening the message to sending money or revealing personal information). In this article, we look at how e-mail spoofing works and what can be done about it, examining such solutions as the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Microsoft’s Sender ID, which is based on it.
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