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What is E-Mail
Email is an electronic document
way to send or retrieve personal and/or business related messages, including
text and pictures. No postage stamps are required! On the internet, everything
moves at the speed of light, including email. Because email can’t be sent and
received so quickly, it’s often written in more conversational manner than a
formal letter.
How Does E-mail Work?
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Email just like the postal service. To receive
email, you must have an account on a mail server.
This is similar
to your mailing address where you receive letters. We will be using the mail
server like Gmail, yahoo, rediffmail, etc.
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Your email message is sent from your computer to
a server (it’s like the post office) where the computer looks at the address
(like the address on a letter) and then directs the message on to the server
associated with the recipient’s email account. Once your email arrives at its
destination mail server, the message is stored in an electronic mailbox
(like your regular mail box) until the recipient retrieves it.
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You can still receive email while your computer
is turned off. The mail server collects and stores your incoming email
until the next time you access your email by opening your mailbox and
downloading your messages.
Understanding Email Addresses:
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You can send email to anyone in the world, as
long as you have is or her email address.
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Example of an email address:
user_name@mail_server.type_of _mail server or user_name@example.com
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