EMAIL

EMAIL(Electronic Mail)

•E-mail lets you sent electronic mail to and receive it from anyone with and e-mail address.  Email  may contain data other than text such as images or  music files.

Benefit of Email

   o Cost

           If you have a personal computer that is connected to the internet via, Isp or any network internet modem, you don’t pay extra charges for sending  or receiving email messages

o Convenience

           You can send or check your mails at any time of the day and from any computer that is connected  to the internet in any part of the world .If the email address is correct

o Speed

           It takes at email few minutes even seconds to reach  it’s destination in any part of the world .This how ever depends on your connection , the speed of your connection the speed  of your computer  and the speed at which your Isp transmit.

Email address

  The Email address has three parts

1)Username  On the left side of the @sign separator is the username

2)Domain name  Domain name for the internet host or network on the right side of the @ separator is the name of email server.

3)Domain code

   

                                                                                              

                  Username ⬎                  

Jsmith@gmail.com   ←   Domain code

                                                               ⬆ 

                          Domain name

Domain code

Aero-Air lines groups

Biz-Business

Com-Commercial

Coop-Business cooperative

Edu-education

Country Domain

Ølk-srilanka

ØUs-America

ØUk-England

ØIn-india

ØJp-japan

ØCa-Canada

ØAu-Australia

Password

Choose a password that is 8 characters or more Make sure your password is secure and one that you can remember .Secure password includes compilation of upper and lower case let us and numbers ,symbols 

Email Protocols/ Rules

•Here’ re some basic rules ,you should right to observe while using email and this is called email

•1.Netiquette

•Always use subject line, This will help the mail recipient to have an idea of what your message is all about

•Be brief in writing ,if  the information you want to send is much ,consider sending some as attachment.

Keep paragraph short and to the point .it’s hard to view long  paragraph remember most people will read your message on the computer screen ,so don’t give them trouble reading your mail.

•Don’t use all capital /all small letters write in a conventional way.

Remember to check your mail for spelling errors before you sent

Important parts of email