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| April 16 2025 |
Email storm
A certificate of completion email for Marine Corporal Andrew Hundley was mistakenly sent to a large distribution list of United States Marine Corps personnel and contractors, causing a wave of 'remove me' reply-all messages.
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| 2024 |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Microsoft plans to enable full SMTP DANE support for Exchange Online customers by the end of the year, enhancing email communication security through DNS-based authentication and encryption capabilities.
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| 2024 |
Syncdocs
Syncdocs ceased operations and stopped working, marking the end of its file synchronization service for Google Drive.
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| 2024 |
Aeronautical Message Handling System
Multiple countries implement AMHS, including Austria, Bahrain, India (Military), Jersey, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Myanmar, Slovenia, Sweden, UAE (Sharjah International Airport), and others.
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| November 9 2024 |
Email storm
Miami University experienced an email storm due to a misconfigured email list, with students receiving hundreds of removal and meme-related emails.
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| October 2024 | Houston announced the layoff of roughly 528 employees, representing 20% of the current workforce. |
| August 2024 | Dropbox announced the acquisition of Reclaim.ai, an AI scheduling tool. |
| May 2024 |
JSON Meta Application Protocol
Cyrus IMAP version 3.8.3 released with provisional support for JMAP protocol standards.
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| February 13 2024 | Announced the addition of Zoom video meeting archiving on the AWS-based cloud service Jatheon Cloud, further extending their communication archiving solutions. |
| 2023 |
Chain letter
Continued popularity of TikTok sounds promising wish fulfillment when used in posts, marking an evolution of chain message trends.
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| 2023 |
Aeronautical Message Handling System
Ethiopia, Maldives, Norway implement the Aeronautical Message Handling System.
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| 2023 |
Open rate
Industry statistics revealed average email open rates of approximately 30-40% across different business sectors, with variations noted between industries such as finance, real estate, healthcare, beauty, food service, and IT.
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| September 8 2023 |
Email storm
An emergency drill in the United States Senate caused an email storm when participants used 'reply all' to report their location.
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| April 2023 | Houston announced the layoff of approximately 500 employees, which is 16% of the current workforce. The company cited a growth slowdown and a need to acquire AI-focused skill sets. |
| 2022 |
Email privacy
A retrospective analysis of an 1890 law review article about personal privacy highlighted how digital technology has increasingly invaded personal lives through ongoing monitoring and personal behavior.
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| 2022 |
Chain letter
TikTok trend 'Good things happen sound' emerged among Japanese high school students, representing a shift towards positive 'luck' chain messages.
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| 2022 |
Aeronautical Message Handling System
Argentina (Civil Aviation) and Uruguay implement the Aeronautical Message Handling System.
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| 2022 |
Mailing list
A publication claimed that direct mail still brings in the majority of revenue for most organizations, highlighting the continued importance of traditional mailing lists in marketing and communication strategies.
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| December 2022 | Dropbox announced the acquisition of form management platform FormSwift for $95 million. |
| December 13 2022 |
Email storm
A Mayo Clinic medical student sent an email to large distribution lists, reaching over 3,000 individuals for an academic project.
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| November 2022 | Dropbox announced an agreement to acquire key assets from Boxcryptor, a provider of end-to-end zero-knowledge encryption for cloud storage services. |
| September 2022 |
Hillary Clinton email controversy
The Washington Post conducted a 'Fact Checker' analysis following a tweet by Clinton about her emails, referencing the 2019 State Department report.
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| July 17 2022 |
Emoticon
The Smiley Company auctioned an NFT of 42 original graphical emoticons on World Emoji Day, with proceeds going to their non-profit arm, Smiley Movement.
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| June 3 2022 |
Email storm
A GitHub pull request tagging Epic Games teams triggered notifications to around 400,000 developers, with some individuals receiving up to 150 additional notifications.
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| May 23 2022 |
Hillary Clinton email controversy
Trump commented on Clinton's attorney taking blame for the email deletion during his campaign.
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| April 23 2022 |
Ray Tomlinson
Email Day, an annual national holiday, was established in his honor on his birthday, commemorating his creation of email.
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| 2021 | Dropbox expanded to 700 million users. |
| 2021 |
Chain letter
The 'Hand of God' image gains renewed attention after celebrities post it on Instagram, prompting security warnings.
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| 2021 |
JSON Meta Application Protocol
Apache James mail server version 3.6.0 released, introducing support for JMAP RFCs.
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| 2021 | Estimated percentage of spam email reached 85%, highlighting the continued and growing challenge of email spam. |
| 2021 | Estimated spam email percentage dramatically increased to 85%, highlighting the ongoing challenge of unsolicited and potentially malicious email communications. |
| October 2021 | Dropbox signed an agreement to acquire universal search company Command E. |
| September 23 2021 |
Emoticon
Scott Fahlman announced an auction for the original 1982 emoticons, which were sold as NFTs for US$237,500 in Dallas, United States.
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| June 2021 |
Hillary Clinton email controversy
It was revealed that the Trump Justice Department had obtained court orders for phone logs of four New York Times reporters who wrote about the email investigation, as part of a leak investigation.
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| April 2021 | Dropbox officially launched its 'virtual first' remote workforce strategy, transforming the company's work approach to a primarily remote model. |
| April 29 2021 |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
EFF stopped accepting submissions for the 'STARTTLS Everywhere' project and recommended switching to DANE and MTA-STS for discovering peers' TLS support.
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| March 2021 | Dropbox announced the acquisition of DocSend, a secure document sharing and analytics product. |
| March 2021 |
JSON Meta Application Protocol
Message Disposition Notification (return receipts) specification was published.
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| February 2021 |
Email privacy
Spy pixels were described as 'endemic' in privacy tracking, with the 'Hey' email service reporting blocking approximately 600,000 out of 1,000,000 messages per day containing these tracking mechanisms.
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| February 5 2021 | COO Olivia Nottebohm left the company. In the same month, Dropbox announced plans to sublease much of its office space in preparation for a transition to remote work. |
| January 2021 | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston announced the layoff of 315 employees, representing approximately 11% of the workforce. The company restructured to focus on top-level priorities. |
| 2020 | Help Scout transitioned to becoming a fully remote company, with employees spread across over 80 cities worldwide. |
| October 2020 | Dropbox announced its 'virtual first' initiative, planning to shift the company to a long-term remote working model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| October 2020 |
Hillary Clinton email controversy
The full DC Circuit Court unanimously declined to hear an appeal, allowing the panel decision to stand.
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| August 2020 |
JSON Meta Application Protocol
The WebSocket specification for JMAP was published.
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| August 2020 |
Hillary Clinton email controversy
A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned Lamberth's deposition ruling.
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| July 29 2020 |
International email
DataMail launched a Kannada language email address service to break language barriers.
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