Introduction to Email

CREATED BY

-I Made Godya A065112308

ILMU KOMPUTERFMIPA

UNIVERSITAS PAKUAN BOGOR

Will Present:

Unit 5:Introduction to Email

Getting to know E-mail

You may know that e-mail (electronic mail) is a way to send and receive messages accros the internet, but do you know how individual emails are sent or what they cost or how email compares to traditional “snail” mail? To get a better idea of what email is all about, review the next slide.

Snail Mail

Snail mail or smail (from snail + mail) is a dysphemistic retronym—named after the snail with its slow speed—used to refer to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services. The phrase refers to the lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt, versus the virtually instantaneous dispatch and delivery of its electronic equivalent, e-mail.It is also known, more neutrally, as paper mail, postal mail, land mail, or simply mail or post. An earlier term of the same type is surface mail, coined retrospectively after the development of airmail. This happened not too long ago, between the 1970s to 1990s.Snail mail is also a term used in reference to penpalling. Snail mail penpals are those penpals that communicate with one another through the postal system, rather than on the internet which has become the more common medium.

Email

Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since approximately 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.Historically, the term electronic mail was used generically for any electronic document transmission. For example, several writers in the early 1970s used the term to describe fax document transmission. As a result, it is difficult to find the first citation for the use of the term with the more specific meaning it has today

Advantages of Email

Productivity Tools: Emails is usually packaged with a calendar, address book, instant messaging and more for convenience and productivity.

Access to Web Services: To Sign up account in the Internet, most likely you will need an email address.

Easy Mail Management: With Email you can manage your inbox, outbox, draft, and the other without getting confused.

Private: You email is delivered to your own personal and private account with a password required for accessing and viewing emails.

Understanding Email AddressesPart I

To receive email accout and email address. Also, if you want to send emails to other people, you will need to obtain their email addresses. It’s important to learn how to write email addresses correctly, because if you do not enter them exactly right, your emails will not be delivered or they might be delivered to the wrong person.

Understanding Email Addresses Part II

Email addresses are always written in a standard format that includes a username, the @ (at) symbol and the email provider’s domain. The username is the name you choose to identify yourself and the email provider is the website that host your email account.

Example: [email protected]

Example

Also, Email Addresses can be seen by recepient.

About Email Providers

In the past, people usually received an email account from the same companies that provided their internet access. For example, if AOL provided your internet connection, you’d have an AOL email address. While this is still true for some people, today it’s increasingly common to use a free web-based email service, also known as webmail. Anyone can use these services no matter who provides their internet access.

Webmail Providers

Top Webmail Providers

Today, the top three webmail providers are Yahoo!, Microsoft’s Hotmail, and Google Gmail. These Providers are popular because they allow you to access your email account from anywhere with an internet connection. You can also access webmail on your mobile devices.

Yahoo! Mail

Microsoft’s Hotmail

Google Mail

Other Email Providers

Many hosted web domains end with a suffix other than .com. Depending on the organization, your provider’s domain might end with a suffix like:

.gov (Government websites), .edu (Education, for school), .mil (Military), .org (Organizations)

Email Productivity Features

In adition to email access, webmail providers also offer various tools and feature. These features are part of a productivity suite, a set of application that help you stay organized. The tools offered will vary by provider, but all major webmail services offer the following features:

Instant Messaging

Which lets you have text-based conversations with other users.

Online Address Book

Where you can store contact information for the people you contact frequently

Getting Started with Email

You should now have a good understanding of what email is all about.When you’re ready, you can try one or both of the following:

-Get your Own Email Account-Learn how to use an Email Program

Get your own Email Account

If you want to sign up for youw own email account, we suggest choosing from one of the three major webmails Providers.

Let’s try Yahoo! MailBecause it’s the easiest mail until now.

Step 1, click Sign In

Step 2, see this form?

Step 3 Fill it!

Step 4

Step 5, click continue

Learn how to Use an Email Program

It’s easy to use Email. You can try by yourself, but for now, see

the description in the next slide for easy way.

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