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- 1What Is Email?Email is short for ‘electronic mail’. It is a system used to send digital messages from user to user.
- 2How Do You Use Email?The sender and recipient of an email do not have to be online at the same time. When one person sends an email, it is stored on a server. It waits in store until the recipient signs in, at which point the server forwards the email to them. The system is known as a store and forward system. This is of great benefi t when sending messages and documents to people in different time zones around the world.
- 3Whats An Address Book?Within your email program, you can create a list of people’s contact details (e.g. name, email address, company name, phone numbers). This is known as an address book.
- 4What Are Attachments?You can send a message and attach files with it (e.g. photos, documents, spreadsheets).
- 5What Is It When There Are Multiple Recipiants?You can send the same message to more than one addresse. You can copy a number of people into an email using CC (carbon copy). Recipients who are entered in this field will be
visible to everyone the email is sent to. If you want to include a recipient on an email but you don’t want other people to see that the email has been sent to them then you add them into the Bcc (blind carbon copy). - 6What Is Store and Forward?Store and forward system is when an email is sent, it is stored on an email server and remains there until the recipient accesses their email account. It is at this point when the server forwards
the message to them. - 7Benefits Of Email-Speed of delivery.
-Cost. Unlike the conventional mail
system, there is no additional cost to
the standard broadband charges.
-Instant delivery on a global scale.
-Delivery to multiple recipients.
-Attachments (e.g. documents and
audio and video files).
-Having a record of the
correspondence between users.
-Webmail providers (including
Hotmail and Gmail) tend to store
emails on a remote provider,
meaning that you can access them
anywhere via a web browser. - 8Disadvantages Of Email-Privacy and security. People can hack
into your emails and read material
which should not be available. Some
of that material may pose a risk to
your security, that of your employer
or even that of the nation.
-Internet access. The fact that both
sender and recipient(s) have to have
email accounts can be a problem.
Some people do not have access to
the internet (or choose not to use it)
so you cannot assume that everyone
has an email account.
-Sometimes a lack of interactivity
may be a problem. In situations
where an instant reply or interactive
discussion is needed, email does
have limitations if the participants are
not online at the same time.
-Spam.
-Viruses.
-Phishing scams. - 9What Is Hacking?When you use illegal
means to access someone’s email
account or computer system.