What is an email address

What is an email address?

1. Electronic mail is a method of sending a message from one computer to another computer through internet. The first E-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in the year 1971.
2. It is part of the standard TCP (Transmission control protocol)/IP (Internet protocol) set of protocols, which sends messages by SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and receives messages by IMAP (Internet Message access protocol).
3. Some of the E-mail platforms include Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and etc.

Types of E-mail-

1. E-mails can be sent to single or group of people.
2. There are a number of methods for clients to engage their audiences through different types of E-mail communication, which will deliver varied benefits that require different design and planning processes.

There are three types of E-mails-

1. Marketing E-mails.
2. Notification E-mails and.
3. Transactional E-mails

E-mail Addressing-

1. An e-mail address is composed of several elements, for example "vishnu@gmail.com"
2. The first part of all E-mail is user group or department of a company or organization, the "@" is divider of email address and to the right is the domain name of the user belong to i.e. "gmail.com".
3. A domain name is a unique name that identifies a website and it serves as an address, which is used to access the website.

Basic Email Operations-

1. Opening an Email Account
2. Creating and Sending a New Email
3. Replying to an Email message
4. Forwarding an Email message
5. Searching emails
6. Attaching files with email
7. Email Signature