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February 14, 2021 by IP Location

The Basics of Email

Basics of Email

Email is one of the very first services provided by the Internet dating back to 1971. It is the best attempt service and does not guarantee delivery much like the postal mail. As long as the recipient's email address is valid, and the mail servers providing services to both sender and receiver are functional, there is a good chance the email will be delivere...

November 23, 2017 by IP Location

Zoho Free Email Hosting

Zoho Free Email

Are you looking for free email hosting for your personal domain or smaill business? Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook used to offer reliable and free email hosting on a custom domain, but they are no longer free. A viable alternative to Google Apps and Outlook is Zoho Mail, and you can have up to 5 free email accounts.

May 6, 2015 by IP Location

How to Trace the Source of an Email to Determine Its Legitimacy?

Trace Email

Users receive multiple emails on a daily basis, some work-related, some personal and others from unknown sources. Sometimes it can be difficult to know which of these emails are legitimate and which aren't. Have you ever received an email from the government requesting your Social Security Number, a payment company stating your card was declined, or a websit...

October 7, 2014 by IP Location

What are different Email protocols?

Email Protocols

When we speak about email accounts, there are multiple protocols which are involved. This can be extremely confusing if you are not aware of what protocols exist for emails. Also, each of this protocols performs slightly different functionality. The commonly used protocols are- IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and Exchange. These are few protocol types one would come acros...

February 6, 2013 by IP Location

How to locate your email header?

How to locate email header

To trace an email, you'll need to locate the email header that came with the email. Every email has an email header and message body. An email may be going through a number of hops, and a header is appended with the IP address of the email server processing the email. When an email reaches the final destination, your email provider appends its IP address to...

November 12, 2006 by IP Location

Email Delivery Problems Explained

Email Delivery Problems

With ever growing number of spam emails flooding the Internet, more and more ISPs tighten their email filtering system to prevent spams delivered to their clients. It is virtually impossible to block even 50% of the spams arriving in a mail server, and there will always be false positives (legitimate emails filtered as spams). In an effort to reduce spam ema...