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Electronic mail, or email, allows people to exchange digital messages and is designed for human communication. Email systems accept, forward, deliver, and store messages on behalf of users based on the store-and-forward model. An email consists of a header with information like sender, recipient, date, and subject, and a message body. Key advantages of email are its ability to quickly send messages to multiple people anywhere in the world at any time and to attach electronic documents for sharing. However, email also carries risks like viruses, spam, and potential hacking.

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Reported By: 4/Y Daigan, Bernard 4/Y Espejo, John Lester 4/Y Gonzales, Ervin

Electronic mail, or email, allows people to exchange digital messages and is designed for human communication. Email systems accept, forward, deliver, and store messages on behalf of users based on the store-and-forward model. An email consists of a header with information like sender, recipient, date, and subject, and a message body. Key advantages of email are its ability to quickly send messages to multiple people anywhere in the world at any time and to attach electronic documents for sharing. However, email also carries risks like viruses, spam, and potential hacking.

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4/Y Daigan, Bernard


4/Y Espejo, John Lester
4/Y Gonzales, Ervin
What is an e-mail?

• Electronic mail often abbreviated as e-mail, is a method of


exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use.

• Email systems are based on the store and forward model in which
email server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on
behalf of users.
Why to use e-mail??
• We can send a message anytime anywhere.
• We can send the same message to several people at same time.
• We can forward the information to coworkers without retyping it.
• We can send the message around the world as easily as to friend in
the next cabin.
• We can save the time, e-mail is very fast, usually taking no more time
than a few minutes to be received.
• We can mail electronic documents and recipients, can then edit and
returned revised versions.
• It is very fast as compare to postal mail.
Structure of e-mail
• Message header. The message header contains control information,
including an originator’s email address and one or more recipient
addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject
header field.
• Message body. Which is the e-mail content.
Header field
• Front. The e-mail addresses, and optionally the name of the author or
sender.
• To: the e-mail address of the message recipient/s. indicates primary
recipients (multiple allowed), for secondary recipients see Cc: Bcc.
• Bcc. Blind carbon copy. Addresses added to the delivery list but not
(usually) listed in the message data, remaining invisible to other
recipients.
• Cc. carbon copy. Many e-mail clients will mark e-mail in your inbox
differently depending on whether you are in the To: or Cc: list.
• Date. The local time and date when the message was written,
automatically attached while sending.
• Subject. A brief summary of the topic of the message.
• Message- ID. Also an automatically generated field; used to prevent
multiple delivery.
• Attachment. Contain the name of files that you want to send.
Example a word document.
Message header

body
E-mail address
• To deliver mail, a system must use an addressing system with unique
addressee.
• Address consist of two parts:
• Local part
• Domain name
• These are separated by @ sign.
• Specifies the destination of an electronic message.
• An internet e-mail address looks like this: username@domain name
• The user name is a unique name that identifies the recipient.
• The domain name is the address, many people can share the same
domain name.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Disadvantages of an e-mail
• E-mails may carry viruses.
• Many people send unwanted e-mail to others. These are called spam
mails.
• They may be lost and you cannot sign them.
• May get flooded with e-mails after a certain time so you have to
empty it from time to time.
• Not everyone has internet.
• Abbreviating and not learning to write the whole word.
• Systems fail.
• Both parties should have e-mail addresses.
• E-mails can be easily sent to the wrong addressee.
• Can be hacked.
• Lacks the personal touch.
The end…

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