In spite of rapid advances in multimedia and interactive technologies, enterprise users prefer to battle with email spam and overload rather than lose the benefits of communicating, collaborating and solving business tasks over email. Many aspects of email have significantly improved over time, but its overall integration with the enterprise environment remained practically the same. In this pa...

In recent years email has become one of the fastest and most economical means of communication. However increase of email users has resulted in the dramatic increase of spam emails during the past few years. Data mining -classification algorithms are used to categorize the email as spam or non-spam. In this paper, we conducted experiment in the WEKA environment by using four algorithms namely I...

Spam is pervasive across many types of electronic communication, including email, instant messaging, and social networks. To reach more users and increase financial gain, many spammers now use multiple content-sharing platforms— including online social networks—to disseminate spam. In this paper, we perform a joint analysis of spam in email and social networks. We use spam data from Yahoo’s web...

Nowadays email has become the most widely used means in daily communication on the net and is increasingly used in place of ordinary mail. Certified email protocols aim to provide additional properties to the standard email service. In this paper we provide a novel optimistic protocol for certified email satisfying nine of the most important properties usually considered in the literature. We g...

Despite Email being the most popular communication medium currently in use and that people have been shown to regularly re-use messages, very little is known about how people actually search within email clients. In this paper we present a detailed analysis of email search behaviour obtained from a study of 47 users. We uncover a number of behavioral patterns that contrast with those previously...

Email has become an essential means of communication for both business and personal use. However, the proliferation of unwanted email advertising or spam has cost organizations millions of dollars and has reduced the effectiveness of email as a communications medium. Recently, spam filters have been widely adopted as a means of combating these unwanted messages. This paper presents a method for...

the present study aimed to analyze reprint request e-mail messages written by postgraduates (ma students) of two fields of study, namely physics and efl, to realize the differences and similarities between the two email types. to investigate the purpose of the study, a sample of 100 e-mail messages, 50 physics and 50 efl, were analyzed according to swales’ (1990) model for reprint requests and ...

As email becomes one of the most convenient and indispensable communication mediums in our life, it is very important to protect email users from increasing email worm attacks. In this paper, we present the architecture and system design of a “feedback email worm defense system” to protect email users in enterprise networks. The defense system is flexible and able to integrate many existing det...