EMAIL

Sheryl May C. Jagonia

Contents
What is Email?
History of Email

Conventional Postal Service Vs. Email

Types of Email

Use of Email
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DEFINING EMAIL

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EMAIL
Electronic mail
commonly known
as email or e-mail
It is a method of
exchanging digital messag
es from an author to one or
more recipients.
Modern email operates
across the Internet or
other computer networks
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EMAIL
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Email
It is the form
required by IETF
Requests for
comment and
working groups, and
increasingly by style
guides. This spelling
also appears in most
dictionaries

e-mail
It is a form previously
recommended by some
prominent journalistic and
technical style guides.
According to Corpus of
Contemporary American
English data, this form
appears most frequently
in edited, published
American English writing

mail
It was the form used in
the original RFC butt.
The service is referred
to as mail and a single
piece of electronic mail
is called a message

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EMAIL
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eMail
Capitalizing only
the letter M, was
common among
ARPANET users
and the early
developers of
UNIX, CMS,
AppleLink, eWorld,
AOL, Genie
and Hotmail

EMail
It is a traditional
form that has
been used in
RFCs for the
"Author's
Address", and is
expressly required
"for historical
reasons

E-mail
Add Your
Title

It is sometimes
used,
capitalizing the
initial letter E as
in similar
abbreviations
like A-bomb, Hbomb, and Csection.

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HISTORY OF EMAIL

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History of Email

Some early email systems

required that the author and the
recipient both be online at the
same time, in common with
instant messaging.

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Conventional
Postal Service

Versus

EMAIL

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Conventional Postal Services

Commonly called as Snail mail.

Messages are written on paper.
Senders and recipients of the letter need
to have a mailing address.
Mails are sent to the local post office.
Mails are delivered from the local postal
office.
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Conventional Postal Services

It may take time and effort for mails to be
delivered since delivery is done in bulk.
Sending multiple copies of a mail to
different addresses takes time for the
copies to be delivered to the specified
mailing addresses.
If a recipient replies to a mail, it may take
the same time and effort as sending a mail.

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EMAIL
SENDER

RECIPIENT

MAIL
SERVER

Messages are posted electronically using the

internet.
Senders and recipients of the email just need to
have an email address in the network.
The email address uses a mail server to send the
email. A mail server is a computer that sends and
receives electronic mail for a specific network.
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EMAIL
Messages are delivered through a network.
Emails are sent much faster and can take
only a few minutes.
Multiple copies of a given email can be sent
to different parties automatically with no
more effort than indicating the distribution
list of addresses.
Replies to emails can be automatic as soon
as the recipient receives the email.
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TYPES OF EMAIL

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Web-based Email
Enable you to access
your e-mail account from
any computer
Ex: Google Gmail,
Yahoo! yahoo mail
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Client-based Email
Consists of e-mail
program you install on
your computer
Microsoft Outlook,
Mozilla Thunderbird,
Apple Mail
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Differentiate
Discussion group
and Newsgroup
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Define Internet
Relay Chat (IRC)

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Instant Messaging (IM)

Enables users in chat
rooms to exchange text
messages with people in
other locations in real
time.
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Define Instant
Messaging (IM)

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Internet Relay Chat

A service for
communicating with
others via Internet in a
private chat room.

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IM Applications

Windows Messenger
Yahoo Messenger
Google Chat

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PARTS OF AN EMAIL

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Parts of an EMAIL

Header

Message Body

Signature

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Parts of an EMAIL

Header

Message Body

Header
Signature

This part contains information

about the sender and the
recipient, and the date and time
of the message. (From, To, CC,
Subject, Date)
The header always contains a
subject line. This indicates what
the message is all about.
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Header
To: The email address(es), and optionally name(s) of the message's
recipient(s). Indicates primary recipients (multiple allowed), for secondary
recipients see Cc: and Bcc: below.
Subject: A brief summary of the topic of the message. Certain
abbreviations are commonly used in the subject, including "RE:" and
"FW:.
Bcc: Blind Carbon Copy; addresses added to the SMTP delivery list but
not (usually) listed in the message data, remaining invisible to other
recipients.
Cc: Carbon copy; Many email clients will mark email in your inbox
differently depending on whether you are in the To: or Cc: list.
From: The email address, and optionally the name of the author(s). In
many email clients not changeable except through changing account
settings.
Date: The local time and date when the message was written. Like
the From: field, many email clients fill this in automatically when sending.
The recipient's client may then display the time in the format and time zone
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local to him/her.

Parts of an EMAIL

Header

Message Body

Signature

Message Body
This part is where you write
your message.

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Parts of an EMAIL

Header

Message Body

Signature

Signature
Similar to the conventional
mail, this signature
identifies the sender.
However, this part is
optional.
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Parts of an EMAIL

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