UNIT 1: THE ONLINE WORLD Email

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Email

Understand the purpose, concepts, processes and implications of email, including:

● email as a system for sending messages through the internet from user to user

● what happens to send an email

● the advantages of using email, including the ability to send attachments and to send

the same email to more than one recipient

● email protocols including Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office

Protocol 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

● the advantages and drawbacks of using email and webmail

● the ‘store and forward’ email model and describe its role in sending messages from

user to user through the internet.