• Warning: you may be an e-hoarder

  Hoarding shows are popular these days. Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Confessions: Animal Hoarding and on and on. The images are consistent: Boxes stacked to the ceilings. Piles of newspapers dating back to the Nixon era. Feral cats skittering behind furniture. Empty cans of cat food, beans and soup scattered everywhere.

• Telstra reports issue with BigPond email accounts

  Telstra (ASX: TEL) has confirmed that a small number of BigPond email customers have not been receiving mail since the weekend beginning 4 February.

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  Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness

  Before I get to this week's main topic I must give a big thumbs-up to a book that all of you who like to cook will thoroughly enjoy: "Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food" by Jeff Potter (pub. O'Reilly).

• BigPond email back online

  BigPond email users have been reconnected after a privacy breach shut down the system for more than 24 hours.

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  Yarra Valley Water announces email upgrade to improve its disaster recovery

  Yarra Valley Water has announced it will make major upgrades to its email system due to its Microsoft Exchange platform becoming outdated.

• Use Gmail IMAP with your desktop e-mail client

  Working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail's Web-based interface.

• How to: Save and retrieve Attachments

  Today, let's look at a very common source of confusion for novice users: saving and retrieving file attachments.

• Be more productive in Microsoft Outlook

  Do you depend on Microsoft Outlook for your e-mail and scheduling needs? Are you annoyed with the e-mail client? Well, join the club--thousands of Outlook users are lobbying Microsoft for improvements in the next version. But this week let's not just complain about Outlook; I'm here to tell you how to make it better.

• Gmail expert tips: How to tame your inbox

  Gmail ushered in a whole new way of accessing and managing e-mail. Many people think that it's a major improvement over the old desktop-app approach.

• Seven ways to improve your e-mail messages

  You are judged by the writing style, tone, language, and mistakes in your e-mails every single day. We're all so optimistic we believe people will overlook our e-mail typos and mistakes, while at the same time we privately label those who send us sloppy e-mails as careless, confused, or ineffective.

• Future world: Today, the Internet - tomorrow, the Internet of Things?

  Embedded in the heel of his shoe was an early example of the Internet of Things -- but Andrew Duncan didn't know it at the time.

• Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers

  Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small business should use the service in its marketing and communications efforts?

• Did e-mail and the Internet kill the 9-5 workday?

  Have you checked your work e-mailtoday? If you're like most employees in the United States and United Kingdom, the answer is yes despite the fact that it is not only the weekend, but an extended holiday weekend for most workers in the US. A day off is becoming an increasingly foreign concept as workers stay connected virtually 24/7.

• Gmail wish list: five features we'd like to see

  In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.

• Analysis: Is HTML e-mail dangerous for your PC, or just your eyeballs?

  Last week's online protest against Microsoft Outlook is turning out to be a tempest-in-a-Tweet.

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  Case Study: Svenska Kraftnät safeguards web and ensures communication security with Clearswift

  Energy producers from surrounding countries load power onto the Swedish National Grid’s network, with energy suppliers then paying the Swedish National Grid to load onto their grids for them to sell-on to customers. Using Clearswift’s Email Appliance, and MIMEsweeper for SMTP means that the organisation has safe and resilient email helping them to meet their goal of providing a safe, robust, cost-effective and environmentally sound energy transmission system.

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  Email Encryption/Decryption and Signing integrated into a comprehensive content security solution

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  Why Encrypt? Securing Email without compromising communications.

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  10 Essential Steps to Email Security