Crain Communications has launched a series of personalized email newsletters in nine U.S. cities including: Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The newsletters will go out daily Monday through Friday.

Email hosing service FastMail has acquired IC Group, Inc., the company that owns email services Pobox and Listbox in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. Combined, the companies aim to improve R&D for email hosting and related resources. FastMail will not change the operation of Pobox and Listbox in the near future and their email forwarding, filtering, and domain services will continue uninterrupted.

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is hoping to pass new legislation that would keep client-attorney email exchanges private. While many federal inmates have access to email, defense lawyers do not communicate with their clients via email. The reason is that most attorneys don't trust it, since prosecutors have used those emails as evidence in court. The organization is arguing that these private conversations are fundamental to the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

Big Email is designed to help people who have difficulty reading small print read their emails on smartphone screens. The app allows users to use extra large text as well as to change the color code emails based on the email sender. The controls are basic and easy to use to make it easier for less tech-savvy users.

B-to-b marketers aren't getting enough attention from prospective customers, according to a new report from b-to-b marketing agency iris Chicago. The company's "2015 B2B Participation Survey," found that some 63 percent of professionals admit deleting emails without reading them and 45 percent of b-to-b marketers say that awareness is their biggest challenge.

Hipmunk helps consumers organize their travel plans from within their inboxes. Users simply have to cc: hello@hipmunk.com on any emails in from travel carriers and the tool will build a calendar based on these emails. If the tool needs extra information to fill in the blanks, it will email the user for more details. In the email, the service will email the consumer an organized travel calendar.

First Citizens Bank in South Carolina has been spoofed and its image is being used in a malicious email campaign. The emails are demanding that the recipient update their online banking credentials. The bank is warning customers to beware of any suspicious emails coming from the bank.

Boing Boing co-founder Cory Doctorow was sick of getting too much email. Even though he was getting emails from organizations that he had had relationships with at some point, he was overwhelmed with email, so he began unsubscribing from everything and spent 30 days removing himself from the lists of more than 3,000 email senders. Since what he calls, "The Great Unsubscribing," he is down to 10% of the unwanted email he had gotten before.

An employee of The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) accidentally sent and email with the personal information of 524 individuals without first encrypting the information. The email includes patient names, addresses, Medicaid recipient ID numbers, genders, ethnicity, race, insurance information, provider names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth. In response to the gaffe, the organization has installed software that will intercept emails with personal data and block them from being sent until the data is encrypted.

The Pentagon has adopted a new policy in which it is disabling HTML links in emails that come from outside the .mil domain, in order to block outside threats and phishing scams. The new approach is being rolled out gradually but is already in place for most Defense Department users. Some of the email users receiving outside emails will see a subject-line warning that the email is coming from outside DOD. Users will have to cut and paste the URL into a browser if they want to access a link referenced in an email.