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 ...

Q: An editor of mine in Europe has sent me an updated version of my work. But the e-mail file has HTML in its name. How do I convert it to a Word document on my PC? Jeffery Wilson, Anchorage, Alaska A ...

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 ...

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Download a newsletter template and send it to a subset of your Outlook or Thunderbird contacts--without the messages getting caught in spam filters. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. An editor of mine in Europe has sent me an updated version of my work. But the e-mail file has HTML in its name. How do I convert it to a Word document on my PC? A. You have encountered a second ...