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E-mail
 Introduction to Email
 The abbreviated form of an Electronic mail is 'E-
mail'. E-mail is a system of creating, sending and
storing textual data in digital form over a network.
Earlier, the e-mail system was based on Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) mechanism, a
protocol used in sending the e-mails from one
server to another. Today's e-mail technology uses
the store-and-forward model. In this model, the
users sends and receives information on their own
computer terminal.
 History of Email
 Email is by far and away the most popular application on the internet. Just
about everyone uses email, and generally people use it all of the time.

It all began in 1968 with a company called Bolt Beranek and Newman
(BBN). This firm was hired by the United States Defense Department to
create something called the ARPANET, which later became the internet.
ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and
its purpose was to create a method that military and educational institutions
could communicate with each other.

In 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson was assigned to a project

called SNDMSG. This program was not new; in fact it had existed for a
number of years. By today's standards it was more than primitive. All it did
was allow users on the same machine to send messages to each other.
Users could create text files which would then be delivered to mailboxes on
the same machine.
 The History of the @ Sign
In 1972, Ray Tomlinson sent the
first electronic message, now
known as e-mail, using the @
symbol to indicate the location or
institution of the e-mail recipient.
Tomlinson, using a Model 33
Teletype device, understood that
he needed to use a symbol that
would not appear in anyone's
name so that there was no
confusion. The logical choice for Tomlinson was the "at sign,"
both because it was unlikely to appear in anyone's name and
also because it represented the word "at," as in a particular
user is sitting @ this specific computer.
 How Email Works
An E-mail Message
An e-mail message has always been nothing more than a
simple text message -- a piece of text sent to a recipient.
In the beginning and even today, e-mail messages tend to
be short pieces of text, although the ability to add
attachments now makes many messages quite long. Even
with attachments, however, e-mail messages continue to
be text messages -- we'll see why when we get to the
section on attachments.
E-mail Clients
You've probably already received several e-mail
messages today. To look at them, you use some sort of e-
mail client. Many people use well-known, stand-alone
clients like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora or
Pegasus.
 Advantages of Email

1. Easy to use: E-mail frees us from the tedious task of

managing data of daily use. It helps us to manage our
contacts, send mails quickly, maintain our mail history,
store the required information, etc.
2. Speed: The e-mail is delivered instantly, anywhere
across the globe. No other service matches the e-mail
in terms of speed.
3. Easy to prioritize: Since the mails have subject lines, it
is easy to prioritize them and ignore unwanted mails.
4. Reliable and secure: Constant efforts are being taken to
improve the security in electronic mails. Thus making it
one of the secured ways of communication.
 Disadvantages of Email
1. Viruses: These are computer programs having the
potential to harm a computer system. These programs
copy themselves and further infect the computer. The
recipient needs to scan the mails, as viruses are
transmitted through them and have the potential to harm
computer systems.
2. Spam: E-mails when used to send unsolicited messages
and unwanted advertisements create nuisance and is
termed as Spam. Checking and deleting these unwanted
mails can unnecessarily consume a lot of time, and it
has become necessary to block or filter the unwanted e-
mails by means of spam filters. Spamming includes,
 Why use email?
• The operating principle behind email is relatively simple,
which has quickly made it the most popular service used
on the Internet.
• As with a traditional postal service, for your message to
reach your recipient, all you need to know is their address.
Its two main advantages over "paper mail" are the speed
at which the email is sent and the lower cost.
• Email addresses
• Email addresses (both for senders and recipients) are two
strings separated by the character "@" (the "at sign"):
• In practice, an email address often looks something like
this:
• firstname.lastname@provider.domain