Basics of E-Mail

Mrs. Vasanthi Muniasamy

1. What is E-mail?

2. How E-mail works?

3. Types of E-mail accounts.

4. Difference between Electronic And postal mails.

5. Usage of E-mails.

6. E-mails in the business world!

7. E-mail netiquettes.

What is e-mail?

E-mail is an electronic mail.

Sent across the World Wide Web.

In which a computer user can send a message at one computer or address that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he or she logs in their e-mail account.

How E-Mail Works?

User 1 is sending a message to User 21.E-mail is sent by user 12.The e-mail gets transferred into an Electronic Form.3.The e-mail goes to the Internet Service Provider.4.The service provider processes the address where the e-mail should go to and sends the E-Mail to the “To” address.5.Now the E-Mail is in the user 2’s inbox.

This is all done in a second!

MSN MSN is also known as the windows live hotmail or hotmail.

Hotmail, is a free Web-email service operated by the Microsoft as part of its Windows live group.

Hotmail was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith.

This web e-mail service was launched in July 1996.

MSN was one of the first free web mail services.

Hotmail feature 5GB of storage space,in each and every account.

Hotmail also features many other functions other than sending e-mail.

One of the most common function is the MSN live messenger.

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Yahoo mail is a web based Service.

Inaugurated in 1997.

Difference betweenElectronic mails and postal mails.

Electronic mails or e-mails are a lot like postal mail.

E-mail saves trees by reducing the usage of paper While a postal mail uses paper.

Postal mails need stamps, while e-mails do not need stamps.

We can send videos and music through e-mails, while we cannot by mail.

E-mail are delivered much much faster than a postal mail.

We can chat through our e-mail accounts.

We have our own separate account and address while sending e-mails, but in the case of postal mails we do not.

Therefore e-mails are prominently faster, better & cheaper.

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E-mails in the business world!

E-mails are used between people to send messages.

E-mail is used in a business office to leave messages to their colleagues in their absence.

Most of the companies communicate with each other thru e-mail.

Many interviews for new candidates are arranged thru E-mail.

E-mail netiquettes

Netiquette is the rules of etiquette as applied to internet communications.Some netiquettes that has to be followed are:

Be polite.

Do not use all capital letters in your message.

Make sure you are sending the message to the right email address

Keep messages short and to the point.

Include a descriptive subject line to help the recipient know the topic of the message.

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