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Release Notes June 2021

Welcome to this month’s release notes! Below you’ll find the latest product improvements and news. What’s New Promotional Partners We are on a mission to empower people to take back their online privacy. StartMail would like to say thank you to our promotional partners that have helped us spread the word about StartMail, and how […]

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Release Notes May 2021

Welcome to this month’s release notes! Below you’ll find the latest product improvements and news. What’s New Improved Sign-up Flow: Recovery Code It can occur that you either forget or lose your account password. To ensure you don’t lose all access when this happens, we added an additional recovery method for you: the recovery code. […]

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Release Notes April 2021

Welcome to this month’s release notes! Below you’ll find the latest product improvements and news. What’s New Reskin After listening to your suggestions on how to improve your StartMail experience, we are happy to announce that we implemented the full reskin! This includes a new design with tool tips that will guide you and provide […]

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Release Notes March 2021

There’s no better way to kick off spring, than with some product updates. Below you’ll find the latest product improvements, promos, and news. What’s New HTTP/2 & TLS 1.3 support We now support HTTP/2 reducing bandwidth usage to make your webmail service faster & TLS 1.3 helping protect your account from attacks and the use […]

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An Introduction to Cryptography History

The history of cryptography can be traced down nearly 4,000 years ago with hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt. Although these inscriptions were not completely secret, they incorporated one of the essential elements of cryptography: a deliberate transformation of the writing. (Kahn, 1967) As the need for secrecy and privacy grew, cryptography became a political technology, where […]

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Quick Guide to Phishing

It all starts with an email from something that appears to be from a trustworthy source designed to lure a victim. The message could look like a request from the bank, your Internet provider, or even the company you work for or follow. They usually contain a link to click or an attachment to download.

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Quick Guide to Social Media Privacy

When used correctly, social media can be used for good; it can help promote business, build and maintain connections to family, friends, coworkers, and potential business associates, and provide endless hours of entertainment. By nature, social media sites are used to share user-generated content; it is central to the function of these sites. While this sharing may not necessarily be a bad thing, it is important to be aware of the privacy concerns.

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Release Notes February 2021

Roses are red, StartMail is blue, we don’t rhyme very well, but here are the release notes just for you. What’s New Reskin We’ve been working on a fresh look and feel of our Inbox and will release it in parts. The first part is live and kicking! Experience the new style which takes our […]

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Seventeen Years of Facebook

Seventeen years ago, roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes published thefacebook.co. Nobody could have foreseen the impact this would bring, having today over 2.5 billion monthly active users worldwide.

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Release Notes January 2021

Welcome to this month’s release notes! Below you’ll find the latest product improvements, promos, and news, plus a sneak peek of our product’s reskin!