Mailbox, Dropbox's email app, is coming to the desktop. Like the mobile version of the app, the new desktop app will allow email users to organize their inboxes through various triage tools including email archiving, snooze and replying. These features have been redesigned to adapt to the user experience on a desktop. The new app also brings a drafting tool. A user's actions will automatically sync across apps so that they can jump between the mobile and desktop apps with ease.

Facebook has joined Microsoft, Yahoo and Google in its push for more privacy in email communications. The social network revealed today that email updates sent through Facebook are now encrypted. Back in May, only 58 percent of the site's emails were encrypted. Now about 95 percent of the site's email messages are encrypted.

An old consumer advocate email list for the Ohio Attorney General Dan Tierney became victim to a spam attack this week. People whose email addresses were on the list received a flood of spam messages over the weekend after one of the names on the listserv had his email infected by a virus. The virus caused the rest of the list to be spammed. However, no personal details were exposed.

Tech startup InboxCube has upgraded its email app, making it easier for email users to explore their inboxes visually. The app organizes inboxes into cubes based on the email's content, be it photos, videos or spreadsheets. Users can sort these cubes and create folders to save these items into. The app lets users organize inbox content into folders by the type of content be it PDFs and photos or by the sender.

German automaker Daimler has added a new level to the out of office email. Staffers can set up an auto responder that lets senders know that they are out of the office on vacation. But rather than having the employee return to an inbox full of email, the software automatically deletes any messages that are delivered while they are away. The idea is to keep employees from checking email while they are on vacation and to allow them to return from their trip refreshed, and without an overflowing inbox to dig through.

The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) saying that 30 technology companies including ExactTarget and Acxiom, are not following an agreed upon privacy Safe Harbor in Europe. Under the terms of the Safe Harbor, tech companies are supposed to provide clear notice of their data collection and data use practices, along with the ability to opt out, in order to operate in Europe. "Our investigation found that many of the companies are involved with a web of powerful multiple data broker partners who, unknown to the EU public, pool their data …

Web domain dealer Go Daddy is the victim of a spam campaign. Cyber criminals have been circulating an email, which claims to come from Go Daddy, but it really spam. The email warns the recipient that their account contains too many directories and may pose a potential performance risk to the server. The email instructs users to create a special tmp directory and links to a malware site which collects the personal information of the user.

A spate of emails have been in circulation which have capitalized on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to gain attention. The spam emails warns the recipient about the outbreak and includes links to find out more information. The links link back to websites with malware which are designed to solicit information from visitors.

MailChimp, an email marketing services platform for small-to-medium sized businesses has upgraded its platform, bringing new marketing automation into the fold while retiring auto responders. The version 9.5 update allows marketers to see aggregate reports from their entire workflow, as well as individual reports for each email in a series. In addition, new tools make it easier to schedule precise send times.

Yair Shalev and his company Kobeni Inc. have agreed to pay $350,000 in fines as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in an email spam case. The company allegedly sent emails before the Affordable Care Act became law, claiming that recipients broke the law if they didn't click a provided health insurance registration link. The links led to a webpage advertising insurance companies, and Kobeni earned money when those ads were clicked.