COMMUNICATING THROUGH E-MAIL

COMMUNICATING THROUGH E-MAIL

E-mail is called Electronic Mail. It is a soft copy of your document that can travel through telephone lines and other devices and can reach any destination in the world. Communicating through e-mail is a time saving and money saving method should have the e-mail ID of the destination and to receive e-mail, you must give your own e-mail ID to the sender.



E-mail is also called Mail. Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson in1972.

You can create your e-mail ID on various servers. Gmail, Yahoo & Rediffmail are the most popular for e-mail services.

Suppose, you have an e-mail account and you want to login your e-mail account in Gmail, you can take the following steps:

1.Get connected to internet.

2.Type www.gmail.com and press Enter.

3. Type your User Id and Password and click Login.

COMPONENT OF E-MAIL

We know that e-mail is a very fast medium of communication. A person has to obtain an e-mail account first to receive or send mails.

There are many internet sites which provide free e-mail services. For example: Hotmail, yahoo mail, Gmail, India times, Rediff mail, etc. when you obtain an e-mail account you get a login name and a password.

When you open your e-mail account, there are various option buttons.

ON THE SCREEN YOU MAY GET SOME OPTIONS, LIKE:

1.Inbox: Inbox is a place where you can see all your incoming mails. It shows you a date-wise list of your mails. In order to read any new mails, you simply have to click over it. When you click it opens up the message you have received.

2.Outbox: All the mails which you have sent to others persons are stored in outbox.

3.Composer: Composer is a utility which helps you to compose your mail. It has various text boxex, like

a)To: In this text box, you have to write the complete and correct e-mail address of the person to whom you want to send the mail.

b)Subject: In this textbox, write the subject matter of the letter. It should not be in brief. Two to three words should be use.

c)Cc: In this box, write the addresses to which you want to send a carbon copy of your mail.

d)Bcc: In this box, it refers to the practice of sending a message to multiple recipients in such a way that conceals individual e-mail addresses from the complete list of recipients.

e)Message: Message box is a multiple line text box which is called a text area. Here write the message that you want to send. After writing the message, click on “send” button. Now your mail will be sent immediately to the desired destination.

4.Address book: Address book is a utility which helps you to store your friends e-mail addresses at one place.It is just like a diary where you store the person’s name and email address. It stores all the addresses of e-mail account and you can use, modify and maintain them whenever you want.

5.Delete: Allows deleting any message from the incoming mails.

6.Forward: Allows forwarding a copy of your received e-mail.

7.Reply: Allow to reply to receive message.