There is value in email, and that value is communication. Over years, service providers and publishers have taken advantage of email’s ubiquity to adapt it for push, notification and automation. Better solutions to those use cases are emerging (or already exist), so this is the time to reclaim the inbox, reduce your email throughput back to what the medium is really good for. I’ve already seen that a little bit of persistent effort can greatly increase the quality of email as a tool.

Phishing. What a stupid word. Lord knows how we’ll persuade regular computer consumers to adapt to it. This is quick and techie-friendly anti-phishing technique, and a Mail.app gripe.

For those of us more tech-savvy (and in possession of multiple email aliases), I twigged upon a simple technique to neuter scam mails without causing the spam filter [...]

Some time ago I stopped using Gmail. I was criticising it increasingly regularly and it seemed only right that I should explore alternatives. The alternative I’ve been settled on since then has been IMAP, in combination with Thunderbird on PC and Mail.app on the Mac. That’s worthy of a separate post at some point, but [...]