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Features of E-Mail
E-mail has several features. Some of them are as follows:
Ability to attach the files along the message.
Ability to store the information such as message and contact list.
Ability to send Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type files.
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.
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 follow:
orangeeducation123@gmail.com orangeeducation@yahoo.co.in
Although these e-mail addresses have different formats depending upon the type of network
but always have same form— a user name and a domain name separated by @ (pronounced
as ‘at’) symbol. The portion before the at (@) symbol is called the user name 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 a particular server or
network for sending or receiving e-mails.
orangeeducation123@gmail.com
User name Domain name
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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