The Indian government is considering passing legislation that would require email host services to save plain text versions of user email passwords in the case that law enforcement agencies need to access the information. The Draft National Encryption Policy would require that all encrypted communication be stored for at least 90 days and it would need to be available to security agencies, if required.

Apple has updated the inbox on the mobile phone with a new feature called 3d touch. This tool allows email users to quickly scan the entire contents of an email simply by pressing the subject line on their mobile device. The peek shows the potential email creative and copy inside.

Employee mistakes are often the cause of phishing attacks. A new company called PhishMe wants to help teach employees how to avoid becoming victims of these attacks. The company trains professionals how to avoid falling for an official looking email that links to a malicious site that is out to steal their passwords.

FutureMe is a website that allows users to write emails to their future selves. The tool allows a person to reflect on their state of mind today and then send it to be delivered at a future day, all the way until 2065. "Memories are less accurate than emails," explains the company's mission statement. "And we strive for accuracy."

Email startup Mixmax has integrated with Google's Inbox app to help make emails actionable. The company, which recently raised $1.5 million in funding, allows users to schedule calendar items from the email compose window, along with other features that help make the inbox at the center of a professional person's to-do list.

Google has updated its Gmail app for Android to version 5.6. The new version mostly contains back-end updates, but the code hints at user updates in the next version. Expect to see rich text formatting and the ability to add bold, italics, strikethrough, colors, and other changes on the horizon.

Most U.S. military agency have yet to adopt email encryption yet. While these groups have been quick to adopt encryption on their websites, the agencies have been slow to bring encryption to email which could put soldiers in danger of having their email read by hackers or spies.

Seventy-six percent of emails have some kind of social media button, but only 14 percent contain social images, according to a new report from Curalate and Movable Ink. According to the report, the reason that so many marketers don't include images from social accounts within email is for technical issues. In fact, 52 percent of the marketers surveyed said "different databases and systems" made adding social images to emails challenging and 52 percent of respondents said analytics and data collection were the hurdle.

The IT department of the Indian government is introducing a new email-based tax payment system. The agency will send email notices with tax bills and recipients can pay the bills online instead of in person. The goal is to make the system more efficient and to avoid harassment, a common complaint of tax paying in person in India.

JeanCarl Bisson, a tech evangelist for IBM, and Adarsh Uppula, co-founder at hiring startup Gogohire, have built a service that highlights the popular emails in one's inbox called Good Email Club. The platform will analyze the sentiment of the message to identify emails with a positive message. Then the service reads aloud the positive messages.