2. Introduction
Email or e-mail is short for electronic mail.
An electronic message sent from one computer to
another or similar device.
Service used to send and receive message quickly and
securely.
It’s a modern method of transmitting data, text files,
digital photos, audio and video files from one
computer to another over the internet.
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4. Elements of E-mail
Sender
Mail Agent
Message
Mail Transport Sub-System
Recipient (Receiver)
Recipient’s Mail Again
E-mail Address
5. Sending Mess@ges
A computer with internet access.
You will need an e-mail server (post office) in order to
send and receive e-mail.
An email account with a service provider such as
Yahoo, Gmail, hotmai, globo.com, ePaLs, etc
6. • To send the message, the user has to specify the
addresses. Messages to more than one recipient are
called broadcasting.
•The email address needs to be followed by the
symbol @ (means “at”), followed by the domain, the
organization's name, and finally the country.
yourname@yahoo.com.in
USER
ORGANISATION
COUNTRY
Cont…
7. Steps for Using E-mail
1. To send an e-mail message-
Log on.
Choose the receiver(s) of the message
Compose the message
Instruct the program to send
8. Cont…
2. To read our e-mail message-
Log on
Look at the list of our new mail
Choose the message we wants to read
Handle the current message by deleting, strong,
printing, forwarding, or replying.
Continue to read other message
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10. The parts of an email
To : enter the exact email address of your recipient
(remember: name@provider.domain)
CC : carbon copy
Subject : the topic of your email – very important
Body : the message of your email
Attachments : the paperclip symbol - files or photos
11. Sending an email
Communication can be tough with written
correspondence.
No body language or facial cues to help.
Err on the side of too formal
Punctuation & spelling
Greeting & closing signature
ATTACH a file from a flash drive
Once an email is sent, you cannot stop it or take it back
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13. Receiving email
If you have any messages you should see them listed on
the screen or in your Inbox
At the top of each message is a header with information
about the sender, date, and routing of each message.
From: dwalker@surfcity-hb.org (Danielle Walker)
To: you@yahoo.com
CC:
Subject: Email Basics class
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 8:31 PST
14. Replying to an email
Reply vs Reply All
When you click on Reply, your message will
automatically be sent to the person who sent you the
email.
When you click on Reply All, your message will
automatically be sent to the person who sent you the
email AND everyone in the TO and CC fields in the
header.
