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In most of the e-mail service providers, the home page has some common folders which are as
follows:
Inbox: It is the folder where all e-mails that you have received from others are stored.
Sent: It is the folder where all e-mails that you send to others are stored.
Outbox: It is the folder where all outgoing e-mails are temporarily stored. Once the all e-mails
have been sent, the Outbox folder gets empty.
Spam: It is the folder where all unwanted incoming e-mails are stored so that they stays out
of the inbox folder. The unwanted e-mail is also known as Junk Mail.
Trash: It is the folder where all deleted e-mails are usually stored for a defined time period.
The e-mail can only be permanently deleted if you delete it from the Trash folder.
Composing and Sending an E-mail
You have created an e-mail account. Now, you want to send an e-mail to your friend. You need
to have the e-mail address of your friend before sending the e-mail.
After getting the e-mail address, follow these steps:
Step 1 Click on Compose button on the top left corner of your Web browser
window to create and type a new E-mail.
Step 2 This will open the New Message window on the screen. 1
Step 3 The New Message window has many fields:
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To: In this field, type your friend’s e-mail
address. You can enter more than one address
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by pressing comma (,) after each e-mail
address.
Cc: Cc stands for carbon copy. It is marked
to the e-mail address who is to be informed
that an e-mail has been sent to the person
marked in To field.
Bcc: Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. It is
marked to the e-mail address when you do
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not want others to see to whom the e-mail
New Message window
has been sent.
Subject: In this field, a one line introduction about the purpose of the e-mail is
mentioned.
The e-mail is typed in the main white body of the New Message window.
Imagine, if your emails could be delivered by virtual birds that fly across the
Internet. What kinds of birds would deliver different types of messages?
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