BTEC 2012

Unit 1 The Online World

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Lesson 8 Email
Starter What is email short for?
Short for electronic mail
1. Explain the store and forward system.
Store and forward system is sent from where a data transmission is sent from one device to a receiving device
2. Explain the different fields highlighted in the picture below.

1.
2.
3.
1 To field where you enter recipients email addresses
2 Cc field- carbon copy is a copy sent to an addressee that is not visible
3 Bcc field

3. List five positive and negative aspects of using email.

Positive:

1. Speed of delivery.
2. Delivery to multiple recipients.
3. Having a record of the
Correspondence between users.
4. Instant delivery on a global scale.
5. Attachments (e.g. documents and
audio and video fi les).

Negative:

1. Spam.
2. Viruses.
3. Phishing scams.
4. Privacy and security. People can
hack
Into your emails and read material
Which should not be available. Some
Of that material may pose a risk to
Your security, that of your employer
Or even that of the nation.
5.

Sometimes a lack of interactivity

May be a problem. In situations
Where an instant replay or interactive
Discussion is needed, email does
Have limitations if the participants
are
Not online at the same time.

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4. Explain the following email protocols used.

Acronym

Protocol

Description

Simple mail transfer protocol

The Internet standard used for sending messages across ip

Networks in server-to-server transfers. Also used by email
Users to send a message to an email server.

Post office protocol 3

Used to retrieve emails from an email server over a TCP/IP

Connection. This is the most widely used email retrieval
Protocol. Normally users download emails to their local
Computer using POP3, deleting them from the email server.

Internet message access protocol

This is the other popular email retrieval protocol. Normally

Users work on the emails as they reside on the email server
Using IMAP and do not download them.

SMTP

POP3

IMAP

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