It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs. And now it’s happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool.

Dealing with e-mail is something of a Sisyphean task, with new messages rolling in faster than you can respond to the old ones, and the perhaps counter-productive tendency to use e-mail as a task and ...

Recently I read about a proposal for eliminating e-mail. After all, e-mail consumes time, adds extra pressure to an already stressful workplace, fragments attention, and feels like a never-ending ...

I love e-mail. I love its efficiency, its clarity and the fact that it creates a detailed, searchable record. E-mail also makes me a little nuts. If I’m away from it for a couple of hours, messages ...

About 20% of commercial e-mails worldwide fail to reach their intended targets’ inboxes, either getting diverted to spam folders or getting blocked altogether, according to the 2017 Deliverability ...

Boxer, my current and all-time favorite iOS e-mail client, has now added Sanebox to its list of features. Sanebox, if you don’t know it, is a service that weeds out the crap from your e-mail inbox and ...

Three rules for taming virtual-file chaos: 1. Do not let e-mail rule your life. Yes, it’s really tempting to check e-mail every time you hear that little ping when one drops in your inbox, but resist ...

For a messaging medium that is reportedly dead, there sure is a lot of interest in e-mail these days. Why? E-mail is the stickiest of applications. For Web sites like AOL and Yahoo, e-mail alone can ...

It is no secret the e-mail channel is doing well in the recession. As a low cost, efficient channel that lets marketers and brands segment, target and trigger messaging based on behavior, it is not a ...

In a simple twist of tactics, spammers are sending large amounts of unsolicited e-mail that has been date stamped one month in the future -- in order to guarantee their messages remain at the top of ...