RetirementJobs.com a career website dedicated to job seekers over 50 has selected SMTP to power its email marketing program. The partnership allows the job site to expand its email volume from one million to five million emails a month. Since they began working together earlier this year, RetirementJobs.com grew its email marketing by 400 percent while still managing to keep its deliverability rates and reputation in good standing.

The Baltimore School of Massage accidentally sent an email with personal information of more than 700 students and alumni to hundreds of people. The school mistakenly added a file with the personal data to its bi-weekly newsletter. The attachment included social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers.

Stock, an email app for Android devices, has just updated in Google Play for Nexus device owners. The update brings users increased security for Gmail accounts, as well as a new interface for managing the flow of email accounts. The update also brings a printing feature.

The University of Wisconsin experienced a total email blackout this week. A power outage at a data center caused by a powerful storm made the university's systems to go dark. About 80,000 students and faculty members were affected.

U.S. Marshals revealed the identities of many anonymous BitCoin bidders when it accidentally replied all to a Bitcoin auction frequently asked question email. The email exposed the names and email addresses of 40 bidders, who were previously unknown.

In a move to fight the over use of email at work, a number of startups are taking an email-free stance. Slack and Asana, are among these companies that let employees work and keep track of projects within shared online locations. The goal of such companies is to make workers more efficient and not bogged down by email. According to a study by the University of California, Irvine, workers check email on average 74 times a day.

EFF and the Sunlight Foundation is giving every member of Congress their own email address in an attempt to make it easier for citizens to communicate directly with representatives. The emails will automatically be forwarded through the appropriate representative's web form. Senders must first sign up in the system as part of a spam-checking process. Once a user has signed in, they can email "myreps@opencongress.org" and the message will automatically be forwarded to the senators and house rep.

Time Warner Cable may have "fixed" most of its email service problems, but the problems still persist. In fact, the outages are still affecting about 10 percent of Road Runner email users, a week after the first flag was raised. The company has attributed the issue to a database problem with some of its email servers. Spokesman Scott Pryzwansky told Syracuse.com, "While we've taken several measures to resolve this issue, we've been unable to permanently fix the issue at this time."

Forty-two percent of employees feel obliged to check their email during vacation, according to a new study from HR consulting firm Randstad. In addition, 26 percent of those surveyed said they feel guilty using all of their vacation time. Still vacations are useful. In fact, 67 percent of respondents, said they feel more productive when they return from a vacation.

The British government is allowed to spy on its citizen's email and social media accounts according to a loophole in the law. Because the servers are based abroad, the messages are fair game. UK police and security services need a warrant to intercept communications within the UK, but since most email and social communications are based outside of the UK, they are not subject to this law.