My mail is hosted by Google, IMAP style. Most of the time, I use Sparrow to deal with my mail, but every now and then I open up Mail.app. When I do, Mail.app starts to frantically catch up with Google ...

Hitting delete on your spam folder feels amazing. It also removes valuable clues that can protect you and everyone you email. Cyber experts do not want you to keep junk forever. They want you to stop ...

We are getting rid of Sophos PureMessage and trying out ORF as a spam filter. ORF does not quarantine spam like PureMessage does, but we still want users to be able to check their spam folder for ...

When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls to your iPhone, and it can screen texts from unknown senders to keep your inbox spam free.

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