E-MAIL

        E-mail is much faster than old-fashion e-mail, called ‘snail mail’, An email message can travel around the world in minutes.

          Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. 

Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model.   Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.

CREATE AN E-MAIL ACCOUNT:

OPTIONS OF THE EMAIL PAGE:

      The window is divided into two parts. On the left side is a list of folders. These folders are used for storing e-mail messages. Listed below are the standard folders and their purposes.

Inbox - All incoming messages are stored here.

Drafts-All outgoing messages are stored here temporarily before being sent to the mail server.

Sent Items - After a message has been sent to the mail server,it is removed from the draft and a copy is kept in this folder.

Trash - All messages deleted from any of the other folders are stored here.

     On the right side of the window,icons or the contents of the folder selected in the left pane are displayed.

Send an E-Mail :

1. Log on your gmail page and click the compose button in the left-top of the page, the new message window will shown in the right-bottom of the page.

2. Type the To e-mail address into the To box 

3. Fill in the Subject box (Optional)

4. Type your message into the large box at the bottom of the window.

5. Click the Send button in the windows bottom-left corner to send the mail.

Parts Of An Email Message:

An email  consists of the following general components:

Headers :The message headers contain information concerning the sender and recipients. Generally, headers contain the following information,

•  Subject: Subject is a description of the topic of the message and displays in most email systems that list email messages individually. 
• Sender (From): This is the senders Internet email address. 
• Date and time received (On): Which time the message was received.
• Reply-to: This is the email address that will become the recipient of your reply if you click the Reply button.
• Recipient (To): First/last name of email recipient, as configured by the sender.
• Recipient email address: The email address of the recipient, or where the message was actually sent.

Body : The body of a message contains text that is the actual content. The message body also may include signatures or automatically generated text that is inserted by the sender's email system.

Add attachments:

To attach a file to a message you're composing, follow the steps below:

1. Click the Compose button first.

2. Click the paperclip icon at the bottom of the compose window.  

3. Browse through your files and click the name of the file you'd like to attach.

4. Click Open.

Note: To attach multiple files, hold the Ctrl key while selecting your files. 

Remove Attachments:

If you'd like to remove a file you've attached to a message, click the x to the right of the file name at the bottom of the message.

               

More Tips about Attachments:

        On Windows computers, the computer assumes that the file type in the filename matches the actual format. Even if the file is correctly formatted internally, if it does not have the right file type extension in the filename, your computer may not be able to recognize it and open the right application for you.

       An increasing number of computer viruses have been designed to spread via file attachments. Therefore, in some environments, system administrators have opted to block incoming mail containing certain types of attachments, most notably files with the extension .EXE or .ZIP as part of their filename. If you send an email message to someone whose email system has been configured to block certain types of attachments, you may or may not receive any notification that was blocked

Popular E-mail Providers:

1. Gmail

2. Zoho Mail 

3. AIM Mail

4. iCloud Mail 

5. Outlook.com 

6. Windows Live Hotmail 

7. Yahoo! Mail

8. Mail.com and GMX Mail 

9. Shortmail 
10. BigString.com 

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Advantages:  

     1. Quick delivery and reply of messages 

     2. Convenient 

     3. Can contact a group of people at once 

     4. No limit on how short or how long the message should be (it would seem 

ridiculous to send a one line letter to someone in the post, but on email this is acceptable) 

    5. Can attach large documents and other files with a click of a button (and without using up resources like paper) 

    6. Doesn't use any paper (good for the environment) 

Disadvantages: 

   1. Less social contact with people (social skills won't be as well developed) 

   2. Less hand-writing practice 

   3. Can be bad for your eyes if you spend too long sending e-mails on your computer 

   4. Messages may be misinterpreted easily 

   5. Abbreviated language may become common practice for some people 

   6. Can provide an easy way to spread viruses to computers 

   7. Can be easy to make a "typo" and say the wrong thing, or send the email to the wrong person 

   8. Access to a computer and the internet is necessary, and this may not be convenient for all people