- quickly delivered in seconds or minutes
EMAIL ADDRESS
- user@host
e.g : nnaliah@utm.my
- "utm.my" is the domain name of the mail server which handles the recipient's email
- "nnaliah" is the username of the recipient
- 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
ATTACHMENT = MIME (MULTIPURPOSE INTERNET MAIL EXTENSION)
- non-ASCII data is converted into ASCII for transmission and then converted back at the receiver
- associated with multimedia
- additional hardware and helper software are required
How Does Email Works???
IMAP (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL)
- to work with email from multiple computers
- messages are displayed on local computers and stored on the email 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
HTTP (HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL)
- allowing mail to be delivered in a web page format
BOUNCED BACK EMAIL ⇨ bad user account name
⇨ bad domain name
⇨ domain name server is down for several days
⇨ some other malfunction (email is too big)
SPAM MAILS!!!
- may contain disguised links leads to phishing websites or sites that are hosting malware
