Managing your e-mail inbox can be discouraging, especially if you receive hundreds of messages a day. As messages build up, the task of reading and addressing each one may seem impossible. So perhaps ...

For a messaging medium that is reportedly dead, there sure is a lot of interest in e-mail these days. Why? E-mail is the stickiest of applications. For Web sites like AOL and Yahoo, e-mail alone can ...

Gmail Priority Inbox puts messages into three groups: important, starred and regular, with the important appearing at the top and the regular at the bottom of the stack. The new feature essentially ...

We are gathered here today to lay to rest Google Inbox. Google’s alternative email client was a radical rethink of how email should work, but as has been the case with many edge-case Google products, ...

I love e-mail. I love its efficiency, its clarity and the fact that it creates a detailed, searchable record. E-mail also makes me a little nuts. If I'm away from it for a couple of hours, messages ...

My method: Scan the pile for urgent notes from bosses, sources, friends or family, attending to the most important first. Then I go through the rest quickly, starting from the bottom. I delete junk.