Many people are sending HTML e-mail for no obvious reason or benefit. HTML e-mail can be recognized by colored backgrounds or typefaces. It sometimes has designs or other decorations in the messages.

Editor’s note: This story has been changed since it was originally posted because several quoted comments were mistakenly attributed to Dave Greiner, head of the FixOutlook.org protest. The ...

The Twitter protest again Microsoft Outlook is losing steam, but the question remains: Is HTML e-mail dangerous or is Microsoft using security as a reason not to comply with Web standards? Last week’s ...

Yahoo used its recent “Hack Day” to springboard its opening of substantial chunks of code to software developers, highlighted by the application programming interface (API) of Yahoo’s widely-used Web ...

Yahoo reportedly is planning to open the code of its free e-mail, Yahoo Mail, to developers outside the company. With the opening of its code, developers will be able to build new progams. For example ...

Everyone knows BlackBerrys are da bomb when it comes to e-mail -- so why can't they handle something as simple as HTML-formatted messages? I'm not sure, but at least there's a third-party fix: BBSmart ...

If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your iOS device’s e-mail messages with a little styled text, you’ve run up against one of the limitations of Apple’s mobile software. But if you’ve got proficiency ...

Probably a stupid question, but I created an html file that has about 8 images, that I could e-mail to family, but I can't figure out how to send it properly so that the images show up in the file.