The promise of e-mail authentication is too good to ignore, but if it is implemented incorrectly it will break a company's mail system instead of fixing it, experts have cautioned.
Google's popular free Web-based e-mail service is testing phishing protection designed to alert users to potential e-mail fraud attacks.
America Online said Thursday that it will not support a Microsoft-backed antispam technology called Sender ID.
A long-awaited update to Microsoft's Exchange 2003 mail server has been released, with the key enhancement being the ability to push new e-mail directly to mobile devices.
An Internet standards group has approved two "experimental" antispam proposals, sidestepping a controversy dividing Microsoft and its e-mail competitors.
The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.
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