The document discusses various email services including Gmail, Outlook (formerly Hotmail), Yahoo Mail, and Zoho Mail, outlining their features and functionalities. It describes how email works, highlighting the sending process via SMTP, as well as comparing storage capacities, privacy policies, and user interface advantages of each service. The conclusion emphasizes that the choice of email service depends on personal preference, as all serve the primary function of sending and receiving emails.

1. Electronic mail (E-mail)

2. Contents
 E-mail introduction
 Gmail
 Hotmail
Yahoo mail
 Zoho mail

3. E-MAIL
Electronic mail, most
commonly referred to
as email or e-
mail since 1993, is a method
of exchanging digital
messages from an author to

4. E-MAIL ADDRESS
• An email address identifies an email
box to which email messages are
delivered. A wide variety of formats
were used in early email systems, but
only a single format is used today,
following the standards developed
for Internet mail systems since the
1980s.

5. Features OF E-MAIL
• Inbox
• Draft
• Compose
• Outbox
• Attachments
• Signature

6. HOW DOES E-MAIL WORK?
• The sender composes a message using
the email client on their computer.
• When the user sends the message, the
email text and attachments are
uploaded to the SMTP (Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol) server as outgoing
mail.

7. • All outgoing messages wait in the
outgoing mail queue while the SMTP
server communicates with the DNS
(Domain Name Server–like a phone book
for domain names and server IP
addresses) to find out where the
recipient’s email server is located. If
the SMTP server finds the recipient’s
email server, it will transfer the
message and attachments. If the
recipient’s server can’t be found, the

10. Gmail is afree,advertising-supported emailservice provided by
Google.
It became availableto the general publicon February 7, 2007

16. FEATURES:
STORAGE:
With an initial storagecapacity offerof 1 GB per user,
Gmail significantly increasedthe webmail standard for
freestorage fromthe 2 to 4 MB its competitors suchas
HOTMAIL offeredat that time. Individual Gmail
messages, including attachments, may beupto 25 MB.
The Gmail interface currently supports 72 languages

17. You can check your Gmail through your mobile
phone, or you can get notifications of newmessages
on your desktop. Gmail has native applications for
Apple's iOS devices (including iPhone,iPad, and iPod
Touch) and forGoogle's Android devices. All other
devices must use the Gmail Mobile webinterface

18. 2 years ago, Gmail introduced the category tab
feature for Inbox which helps in sorting your emails
in different sections such as primary, social,
promotion
Your messages are automatically categorized into
the following optional tabs:
Primary :
Messages from friends and family, as well as any
other messages that don’t appear in other tabs.
Promotions :
Your deals, offers, and other promotional emails.
Social :
Messages from social networks, media-sharing sites,
online dating services, gaming platforms, and other
social websites

20. Undosent emails: For a long time, Google has been
experimenting with this feature in its innovative Gmail lab and finally
the experiment hascome out successfully,with the ‘undo sent email’,
which is rolled out to be a part of Gmail forever. If you send anemail to
any recipient accidentally, you will now get the option ‘undo send’.
However, you can availthis option between 5 to 30 seconds.

21. Save drafts:
As you write a message, Gmail automatically saves a draft of it.
This way, you can always step away from your inbox and finish a
message later.
Compose:
This e-mail feature helps u rite a message to 1 or several people at 1
go. You can also send different files as attachments along with your
main text message
Sent mail:
This folder gives the information of all the sent messages. Messages
sent to others can be saved in the folder.
Forward:
Messages that u have received can b forward 2 someone u wanna
share it with through dis option.

22. HOTMAIL.....
outlook

23. OUTLOOK.COM(HOTMAIL)
• Outlook.com is a free web-based
email service run by Microsoft. One of the
world's first webmail services, it was founded
in 1996 as Hotmail
• Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft in 1997
and launched as MSN Hotmail, later
rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of
the Windows Live suite of products.

24. • Outlook.com replaced Hotmail in 2013, and
follows Microsoft's Metro design Language,
closely mimicking the interface Microsoft
Outlook.
• Existing Hotmail customers could freely
upgrade to the preview version of
Outlook.com and downgrade back.

25. Competition
• In 2004, Google announced its own mail
service, Gmail. Featuring greater storage
space, speed, and interface flexibility, this
new competitor spurred a wave of
innovation in webmail .The main industry
heavyweights – Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail –
introduced upgraded versions of their email
services with greater speed, security, and
advanced features.

26. Features
• Privacy: Outlook.com has promised to
respect user's privacy, specifically
targeting Gmail’s practices.Outlook.com
does not scan emails or attachments for
advertising information and personal
conversations are ad-free entirely.
• Active View : allows users to interact
directly with contents and functionality
within their email message. a partner
platform which allows contents and
functionality from various websites and
services

27. • Office Online Integration :Outlook.com
integrates with Office Online to allow
viewing and editing of Microsoft Word,
Excel and PowerPoint documents that are
attached to the email messages.
• Allows users to make a Skype video call
within Outlook.com without using the Skype
desktop client
• Sweep : Virtual broom which allow users to
delete or move large amounts of emails into
specified folders based on the sender's
information.

28. • Aliases : Users can create additional, unique
email addresses, called aliases, for
their Microsoft account.
• A single-use code is a code that can be used
instead of a user's password when signing into
a Microsoft account.
• Security : Microsoft has a two step verification.

29. Protocols used
• DeltaSync : through this users could download
Outlook Connector which enabled users to
freely access email messages, contacts, and
calendars.
• POP3:Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
• EAS
• IMAP

30. FLAWS
• Popularity with spammers
• Requests for contact details

33. History
• Yahoo! was started at Stanford university It was
founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
• The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18,
1995
• Yahoo Mail is a free email service offered by the
American company Yahoo.
• It was launched in 1997. It was the third-largest web-
based email service with 281 million users.
• RocketMail was one of the first major web
• mail services which was acquired by Yahoo!
• in 1997

34. Features of Yahoo Mail
• Free web based email
• Is easy to access from any computer with internet
access
• Has a pay-per option that allows you to access
additional features for a small fee
• Free version offers Spam and Virus protection
• Offers a contact manager to help you keep track
of your friends

35. Features ….
• Email storage capacity: 1 TB
• Email attachment limit: 25 MB
• Account expiry on inactivity: 8 months
• 100 filters to automatically sort incoming
messages
• Spam and virus protection.

36. Comparison – By Laptop Magazine

38. ZOHO CORPORATION
Zoho Corporation founded in 1996, is a cloud
computing pioneer headquartered in Pleasanton,
California, known for pioneering SAAS software as a
service cloud delivery model.
Zoho mail is predominantly for business purpose but
can also be used for other purposes.
One highlighting feature is that it is ADD
FREE….

39. Options
Zoho provides a wide range of options…
Inbox
Drafts
Templates
Sent
Spam
Trash
Outbox
Labels

40. Out box

41. CALENDER

42. Features
 Organized Inbox
Familiar interface
 Multi level folders
 Drag and drop
 Filtered views
Threaded view
 Tabbed view

44. Multi level folders

45. Threaded view and multiple tabs

46. Advanced features
 unified interface
 dynamic from address
 powerful search
 anti spam and anti virus
 instant chat
 templates
 shortcuts
 outbox

47. Dynamic from address

48. Advanced search

49. Instant chat

50. Conclusion
Selection of email group depends on you…….
Either it be Gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail or Zoho
mail…
All email groups have the same function
That is sending and receiving mails …..
Which mail do
u prefer???

51. Done by: Kundana