- a mail, but is sent electronically across the Internet
- quickly delivered in seconds or minutes
Email Address
- What you need is – The E-mail address of the recipient.
- – user@host
- – zzz@utm.my
- – zzz@tm.net.my
- “utm.my" is the domain name of the mail server which handles the recipient's mail.
- “zzz" is the user name of the recipient.
- User name and hostname are separated by "@".
Email Client and Server
- Email Client- software/program that can transfer email from a local host to a local email server
- Email Server- software/program that can send and receive email from or to other email servers
- Mailbox- a disk file which holds email messages
CC and BCC
- CC (carbon copy section) - send a message to more than 1 person - all the recipients will see the list of email addresses
- BCC (blind carbon copy section) - email is sent to a large group of people who do not know each other - addresses won't be seen by the recipients
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
- designed for the situation where you want to work with your email from multiple computers, such as your workstation at work, your desktop computer at home, or a laptop computer while traveling.
- messages are displayed on your local computer but are kept and stored on the mail server - you can work with all your mail, old and new, from any computer connected to the Internet, as long as the mail servers are running.
Web-Based Email-HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- allowing the mail to be delivered in a web page format.
- Bad user account name
- Bad domain name
- Domain name server is down for several days
- Some other malfunction (email is too big)
- Email spam, also known as junk email sending messages to numerous recipients by email.
- The messages may contain disguised links that appear to be for familiar websites but in fact lead to phishing web sites or sites that are hosting malware.
- Spam email may also include malware as scripts or other executable file attachments
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