The press secretary for Republican House Speaker John Boehner Brendan Buck sent a very casual email to update reporters on the status of immigration reform legislation. "Because many of you are asking, here is a comment from me on the status of immigration, which as you will see is the same as it has been," he wrote. "Everyone can tell their editors to chill. The House's focus remains on jobs and the economy."

Gusto joins the busy email organizing app world with a new app that allows email users to manage their messages. The special appeal of Gusto is that it helps users more easily find files and photos within dedicated tabs. The tool also has a powerful search feature that lets users do filtered search their inboxes for things like file type, account, date, and read/unread status.

Microsoft has revealed that Outlook.com users can now import email from IMAP-enabled email providers, including Yahoo Mail, into its platform. The tool lets users keep their old email address, but manage them through the Outlook.com portal. In order to import a Yahoo Mail account into Outlook.com, users must go into Options and then click "Import email accounts." There is a special feature that lets users import their Yahoo account.

German-based Lavaboom has launched a new encrypted email service that the creators say will keep out all snoops. The company was inspired by Lavabit, the encrypted email service supposedly used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, that was forced to shut down last year. Lavaboom uses a key handling which allows users to personally encrypt and decrypt their mail from their browsers using JavaScript codes.

Virgin Media has had to apologize after accidentally sending hundreds of unwanted emails to customers in error. The issue took place when one of the company's vendors mistakenly sent an email, in which anyone that hit 'reply all' had access to reply to the entire group listed on the mailing. The users email addresses were exposed in this situation. Virgin Media said that the issue only affected a 'small proportion' of its customers list.

Scammers have begun sending fake emails that claim to come from Netflix, AOL or Comcast. The emails tell recipients that their account has been "suspended due to suspicious activity." The hoax email includes a link back to a fake website that looks real. Consumers that try to login through these links will risk exposing their personal information to hackers. The fake page loads an error message after the user tries to login. Then the hackers try to sell the consumer a security software for hundreds of dollars.

New emails have emerged in the Samsung Apple case showing that Samsung's VP of sales operations for the company's US mobile division Michael Pennington saw Steve Jobs' death as a good time to lash out at Apple. In the email chain from 2011, he wrote, "Unfortunately, Steve Job's [sic] passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple's and iPhone's 'superiority,' all created by the 'passionate, tireless, perfectionist...' The point here is that there is an unintended benefit for Apple, since the external messages by 3rd parties are all highlighting and/or supporting the consumer perception that Apple …

A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld a contempt of court citation against encrypted email service provider Lavabit Inc. and its owner Ladar Levinson. The judge sanctioned Levinson for refusing to help federal authorities access encrypted emails in part of a criminal investigation. The court did not reveal who the investigation involved, but it has been widely reported that Edward Snowden used the service.

Sprint customer Kelvin Mathews received a rude email from Sprint after calling to company to complain that he was still getting emails about a Sprint account that he had closed. The email was addressed to "Sissyboy Kelvin Gay Matthews." The email came after Matthews had shared his email address with the customer service representative. The rep used his email address to send Matthews instructions on how to login to his online account.

Google updated its user terms of service policy to clarify that it is scanning emails that come in and out of Gmail users' inboxes. The update explains that Google scans the content of emails stored on Google's servers as well as those emails that are sent and received by any Google email account. "We want our policies to be simple and easy for users to understand. These changes will give people even greater clarity and are based on feedback we've received over the last few months," a Google spokeswoman told The Guardian.