Category Archives: Barry Shurtz

Best Practices: Emailing on the Go

I’m adding a new “Best Practices” category to the Sendmail Blog. Every week or so, this is where we’ll address many of the challenges posed by emailing in today’s world. This week, I’m going to look at email and travel. … Continue reading

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Friday afternoon musing on mobile apps

As someone who’s often working on the road, I’m always on the look out for great mobile apps and thought being Friday afternoon and all that I’d share the few I’ve come to rely on: 1. Email Management: Mailbox from … Continue reading

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Three Clicks Away from Adult Content?

A recent study conducted by Kaspersky Lab suggests children on YouTube are just three clicks away from playing videos featuring nudity, violence and other adult content—even if they’re watching clips from such G rated fare as Sesame Street or Dora … Continue reading

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Phishing: Preparing Your Last Line of Defense

You’re hurried. You’re under deadline. Clicking, clicking, clicking away at your keyboard. You can hit the backspace after every typo, but if you accidentally click the wrong emailed link, there are no second chances. You’ve just fallen prey to a … Continue reading

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Making Email Work Better

In a previous post, I shared some thoughts on how users can help overcome email overload by adopting better habits on both the sending and receiving ends. But a big part of taming the beast is making it happen before … Continue reading

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Government Leading Innovation in the Cloud

Who said government is stodgy and wasteful? When it comes to cloud computing, government’s on the forefront—particularly when it comes to cloud-based email. The US Army, EPA, GSA, Interior, Labor, the USDA…They are all among the government organizations moving email … Continue reading

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Sendmail and Mimecast Join Forces

This morning Sendmail announced a new strategic partnership with Mimecast that we think our customers will be really excited about as they consider different options for moving certain email functions to the cloud. After discussions with many of our customers … Continue reading

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We’ve been warning you about it. And now ReadWriteWeb wrote about it.

In a post entitled, “Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial of Service Attack on Your Own Company,” tech reporter Brian Proffitt addresses the issue organizations are beginning to encounter as they attempt to migrate email to the cloud without … Continue reading

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Did you catch it?

This week we announced 300% sales growth over the past three years in Japan, where smartphones surpassed feature phones as the most acquired device last February. But we can’t give all the credit to Japan. Our Country Manager Nobuhiro Suemasa … Continue reading

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Email Policy: Self-Governance or Central Enforcement?

Our President and COO, Glen Vondrick, who has been in the messaging market for years, wrote an excellent article published in Messaging News on whether email policy should be self governed or centrally enforced. In the article Vondrick sets the … Continue reading

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