E MAIL STRUCTURE

E MAIL STRUCTURE

what is E mail ?

E mail stands for electronic mail. Email (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. Email messages are usually encoded in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).

 

However, you can also send non text files such as graphic images and sound files as attachments sent in binary streams. Email was one of the first activities performed over the internet and is still the most popular use. A large percentage of the total traffic over the internet is email. Email can also be exchanged between online service provider users and in networks other than the internet, both public and private.

 OR

Email is a service which allows us to send the message in electronic mode over the internet. It offers an efficient, inexpensive and real time mean of distributing information among people.

E-mail is generally of the form username@domainname. For example, sonikapal@gmail.com is an e-mail address where sonikapal is username and gmail.com is domain name.

• The username and the domain name are separated by @ (at) symbol.
• E-mail addresses are not case sensitive.
• Spaces are not allowed in e-mail address.

E-mail Header :-

The first five lines of an E-mail message is called E-mail header. The header part comprises of following fields:

• From
• Date
• To
• Subject
• CC
• BCC

From :-

The From field indicates the sender’s address i.e. who sent the e-mail.

Date :-

The Date field indicates the date when the e-mail was sent.

To :-

The To field indicates the recipient’s address i.e. to whom the e-mail is sent.

Subject :-

The Subject field indicates the purpose of e-mail. It should be precise and to the point.

CC :-

CC stands for Carbon copy. It includes those recipient addresses whom we want to keep informed but not exactly the intended recipient.

BCC :-

BCC stands for Black Carbon Copy. It is used when we do not want one or more of the recipients to know that someone else was copied on the message.

Greeting :-

Greeting is the opening of the actual message. Eg. Hi Sir or Hi Guys etc.

Text :-

It represents the actual content of the message.

Signature :-

This is the final part of an e-mail message. It includes Name of Sender, Address, and Contact Number. 

 E-mail System :-

E-mail system comprises of the following three components:

• Mailer
• Mail Server
• Mailbox

 Mailer :-

It is also called mail program, mail application or mail client. It allows us to manage, read and compose e-mail.

Mail Server :-

The function of mail server is to receive, store and deliver the email. It is must for mail servers to be Running all the time because if it crashes or is down, email can be lost.

Mailboxes :-

Mailbox is generally a folder that contains emails and information about them.

Through the e mail we can send mail from one person to one and more persons.

E-mail Hacking :-

 Email hacking can be done in any of the following ways:

• Spam
• Virus
• Phishing

Spam :-

E-mail spamming is an act of sending Unsolicited Bulk E-mails (UBI) which one has not asked for. Email spams are the junk mails sent by commercial companies as an advertisement of their products and services.

Virus :-

Some emails may incorporate with files containing malicious script which when run on your computer may lead to destroy your important data.

Phishing :-

Email phishing is an activity of sending emails to a user claiming to be a legitimate enterprise. Its main purpose is to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.

G Mail :-

Gmail is an email service that allows users to collect all the messages. It also offers approx 7 GB of free storage.

Email and Gmail is that the 

Email is a method of exchanging digital messages over a communication network such as internet while the Gmail is an email service provider by Google.

Gmail is an email service provider by Google. It is not possible to use email without an email service provider such as Gmail.

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