You’ll be needing a gmail.com account. Then go to Settings, Accounts and if you want to add a gmail account, at the first thing in the list, click on “Add another email address”. If the other e-mail account is on… let’s say: yahoo, you’ll have to look a little lower at “Get mail from other accounts:” and

This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a trusted certificate authority (CA) create one for you.

Zimbra has both commercial and Open Source versions. The Open Source project is very interesting in that it has many features that people want and looks great. You can use Zimbra Desktop to gather mail from many different accounts including Zimbra Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, Outlook or any other work or personal email account using POP or IMAP.

The built in Mail program for Ubuntu is Evolution Mail. It has a familiar interface to MS Outlook and OSX Mail. In this tutorial I walkthrough setting up Evolution mail witha POP account, in this example I use my gmail account information.

Need to quickly encrypt a file or an archive? You can do this using the GPG encryption software which is installed by default on many mainstream Linux distributions.

Another howto by me concerning encryption. However this one will be pretty intense on graphics. I have a step-by-step guide on how to do a manual full encryption of the system. Due to a bug current in the ubuntu installation, you cannot encrypt the swap partition directly during the manual install. The install will just hang.

Microsoft’s proposed $45 billion buy of Yahoo would give the Redmond, Wash company control over a top open source e-mail company, open source projects and an open source infrastructure. On September 17 of 2007, Yahoo bought Zimbra for $350 million. Yahoo’s infrastructure is built on BSD. Yahoo has released a myriad of software to the open source community and even sponsors some open source projects. So this deal would put Microsoft directly into the open source software business.

Lots of people (including me) have been experiencing issues trying to connect to their yahoo messenger account via pidgin. The reason for this issues seem to be that Yahoo are updating their servers and are using a new authentication system?

CentOS 5.3 now comes with disk encryption. When you install the operating system you have the option to encrypt block devices, partitions that you create. Block device encryption requires a passphrase or key as authentication in order to access the data on that partition.