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If you've had it with Microsoft's software, one of these five independent packages may suit your needs. We've asked five writers to advocate for their favorites.
We examine three e-mail authentication techniques to see how effective they are in slowing the flow of annoying electronic junk mail.
Outsourcing your e-mail can streamline IT operations and cut costs. We sent an RFI to hosted e-mail providers on behalf of our fictional engineering services firm. The highest marks went to the provider with the most features and 99.99 percent uptime.
In many organizations, e-mail is the beast that ate the storage budget. The time it would take to search backup stores, tapes and disks manually for any given e-mail is mind-boggling. The answer is a coherent e-mail archiving strategy, where a copy of every message is captured automatically as it arrives or is sent and then stored in a secure, organized repository.
Wouldn't it be nice if your e-mail followed you, accessible whenever you want and wherever you go? That's some powerful stuff.
Most companies have accepted that they must support wireless e-mail, but questions remain. Which employees need it, and on which devices? And, how can IT best manage, secure and support it? We examine how effectively vendors have resolved the problems that hindered past deployments.
A new class of products combines the technologies needed to bring some sanity to e-mail archiving. NWC Lab Director Ron Anderson evaluated three top Automated E-mail Archiver offerings from Zantaz, Waterford and EMC. Find out which one overcame complexities and high prices to garner our Editor's Choice award.
Once a prized perk for corporate execs, now the masses are clamoring for mobile e-mail. Here's how to connect employees without breaking the budget.
Message encryption, along with other measures, should be a critical part of your overall security strategy. But poor planning could leave your organization compliant and yet still unprotected. Here's how to choose the right combination of encryption and protection technologies to suit your needs.
There's more than one way to stop junk e-mail. We evaluate several of the latest spam-filtering mechanisms which prevent most undesired messages from ever reaching your end users.
Let's face it: Antispam laws haven't made a dent in the flood of junk e-mail. We put six Exchange-compatible technological spam killers to the test. Our pick for Editor's Choice gets the nod thanks to its elegant and effective engine design and comprehensive reporting.
Lemonade provides a standards-based approach to mobilizing IMAP and SMTP e-mail clients. But with limited e-mail server and client support, it may be some time before Lemonade can make a sale.
E-mail has become a critical marketing tool for small businesses. Yet sometimes legitimate businesses find themselves on dreaded email "blacklists" that classify their emails as spam. Here are some tips about how to prevent this from happening to you.
Trend Micro today announced Email Security Services, a hosted email protection service that offers a cost-effective alternative to on-site hardware or software at the messaging gateway.
Foster's Wine Estates America's new e-mail management system provides the company with archiving to improve storage and access as well as e-discovery to help comply with regulatory audits.