Basic concepts of E-Mail

1. Mrs. Vasanthi Muniasamy

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. How E-Mail Works?
User 1 is sending a message to User 2
1.E-mail is sent by user 1
2.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!

7. 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.

8. 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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9. Yahoo mail is a web based Service.
Inaugurated in 1997.

10. Difference between
Electronic 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.

11. 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.

12. Usage of E-Mails
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Yahoo Google AOL
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13. 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.

14. 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.

15. www.wikipedia.com
www. Student Email Information - 2_ Netiquette.com
www. LEARN THE NET How E-mail Works.com

16. Thank You