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                     Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) is an Internet standard to expand capabilities

                     of e-mail. It was invented by Bell Communications in 1991 to send audio, video, images, and
                     application programs as attachments in e-mail.




                 Advantages of E-Mail
                 E-mail has various advantages, some of them are:
                    An e-mail can be sent anytime and from anywhere in the world.

                    An e-mail can be sent to many people at a time.
                    An e-mail can be easily forwarded to anyone without typing it again.

                    Sending an e-mail is fast in comparison to traditional mails.

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                     You must have an Internet connection to send and receive e-mails.




                 E-Mail Address
                 You need to have an electronic address to send and receive e-mails. This electronic address is called
                 e-mail address. The e-mail address is unique for each e-mail user.

                 Some examples of e-mail addresses are as under:

                     orangeeducation123@gmail.com                           orangeeducation@yahoo.co.in

                 Although these e-mail addresses have different formats depending upon the type of network but
                 they always have same form— a username and a domain name— separated by @ (pronounced as

                 ‘at’) symbol. The portion before the at (@) symbol is called the username and the later one is called
                 domain name. The username is unique to every individual sending or receiving e-mails. The domain
                 name is common to all the individuals using         orangeeducation123@gmail.com
                 a particular server or network for sending or
                 receiving e-mails.                                           Username               Domain name


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                     The first person to send an e-mail across a network was Ray Tomlinson. He used the “@”
                     sign to separate the names of the user and the domain name.








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