To send and receive messages, your email client transmits your username and password over the Internet to your mail server. By default, this information is sent unencrypted, which opens you up to the ...

Outgoing mail for Microsoft email programs is automatically routed through the Microsoft Exchange Server. It is possible to change this server to something else and to stop outgoing email from using ...

Q: I can’t figure out the slowness (almost a minute per item) with which my wife’s computer sends an email when it is hooked up to our home router. When we went to a wedding in San Diego recently, we ...

One of the lesser-known useful things about Gmail's filters is that they work on email you send as well as email you receive. So you can do things like label all messages you send with the word ...

I work for an ISP and occasionally deal with customers who swear up and down that they need *our* outgoing email server to make email that we do not host or provide work. Example: Customer has ...

Q: My Gmail account suddenly stopped sending emails. I can receive emails, but any I try to send never go. This is happening on my phone, my tablet and my desktop computer. A: Are you accessing your ...

Add a signature to outgoing emails, replies and forwards, whether you whether you use Microsoft Outlook on mobile or desktop. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She ...