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Topmail launches new email features

Topmail has recently added 3 significant email features to its service: 50MB Attachment Sizes, Drag and Drop attachments and Draft auto-saving.

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 3 min read

Using Email aliases to avoid Spam

Wondering if using an email alias is worth it? If you ever noticed that soon after signing up for a service, you've been inundated with Spam, then you might want to consider it. Spammers work hard collating lists of email addresses and they have innumerable sources. The best way to minimize how much Spam you receive is to ensure that your email address never gets on to one of these lists.

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 3 min read

Advantages of an Ad-Free Email Service

Any data which a third party can obtain about you provides the first point of contact for hacking and phishing. This can be through automated means or social engineering. For example, someone can use their existing knowledge of you to gain unauthorized access to a service you use.

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 3 min read

Has Your Email Account Been Hacked?

"What people seem to forget is that when an email account is breached it gives the hacker the ability to access your password, which in some cases you use for a lot of other online accounts, of which these could have valued private information stored."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 3 min read

Is Private Email a Luxury Service?

"Your personal information and email content becomes a product to which the free email providers sell to third parties, such as advertisers and marketing companies, who in turn make massive profits from it."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 3 min read

Need a private alternative to Yahoo mail?

"The protection of your online data is becoming ever more important in today’s digital environment. Any “Free” online service unfortunately still comes at a cost to you i.e. your privacy."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 3 min read

Email Privacy: Is what you get worth what you give away?

"It is becoming more known that 'free' online services do come at a cost, the cost being the collection and distribution of your personal data for advertising purposes."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 3 min read

Can a simple social login jeopardise your privacy and online security?

"Logging in to a website using a service such as Google allows the website to make a request for data about you. The exact data that the website is requesting pops up in a window asking for permission. Saying yes to that request adds one more tiny bridge between the virtual islands of your online self."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 3 min read

Euro 2016 Ticket and Lottery Email Scam

"...fraudsters have the ability to create realistic looking emails that can filter through or be targeted to your free email accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook etc..."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 2 min read

Why Pay For Email?

"Did you know that when you send an email through Gmail, for example, you 'give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works...communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content'? At Topmail your data remains your data at all times and we will NEVER use it in any other context whatsoever."

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 3 min read

What is the cost of a free email service?

"I was always told throughout life that “there is no such thing as a free lunch”, in other words you rarely, if ever, get anything for free in life. Especially in the case of digital services such as email providers, if it’s free then they are definitely getting something in return and it’s usually your personal information."

Author: Ed Byrne
— 2 min read

Nobody cares about online ads - until they do.

"In many ways I was an advertiser's dream: an eyeball with a mouse."

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 2 min read

The importance of a good email address

"If your email address is too long, too confusing or too hard to understand in conversation, then people are going to have trouble reaching you...In addition the longer, more complex or bizarre your email gets, the more likely others are to view it as spammy when they see it in their inbox."

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 3 min read

Why would anyone pay for email?

"If there was just one thing I could get across to people about email it would be this: free email can never be private."

Author: Daniel Caffrey
— 2 min read