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B. Fill in the blanks.
1. ........................... is a folder where e-mail messages which are marked as the most important e-mails are stored.
2. If you’re collaborating with a group of people via e-mail, you’ll probably want to use the ........................... option
so everyone gets the message.
3. ........................... basically works the same as replying, but it’s used to send the e-mail to someone who wasn’t
one of the original recipients.
4. When an e-mail mes sage is deleted, it stays in ‘Trash’ for up to ........................... days.
5. Content typed in the ........................... line cannot be formatted.
Ans. 1. Starred 2. ‘Reply to all’ 3. Forwarding
4. 30 5. subject
Section B
(Subjective Type Questions)
A. Answer the following questions:
1. What is Inbox
Ans. It is the folder where all e-mails that you have received from others are stored.
2. Differentiate between:
i. User name and Domain name
ii. Replying and Forwarding
Ans. i. User Name: The portion before at the rate (@) symbol is called the user name. It is unique to every individual
sending or receiving e-mails. Here it is ‘info’.
Domain name: It tells which type of server the user is using. It has two parts mail server and top-level
domain. The domain name is common to all the individuals using a particular server or network for sending
or receiving e-mails. Here domain name is ‘orangeeducation.com’.
ii. Replying: When you reply to any e-mail message, the sender need not worry about the recipient’s e-mail id
as it will automatically appear in the To: field.
Forwarding: Forwarding works the same as replying, but it’s used to send the e-mail to someone who wasn’t
one of the original recipients.
3. Define e-mail applications.
Ans. An e-mail application is dedicated application software installed on a computer or mobile device that is used to
access services related to e-mail. This application enables the user to store e-mail messages on the storage device
of a computer or mobile. Once the e-mail is downloaded, it can be accessed of ine also. Some common e-mail
applications are Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, etc. Some of the advantages of using an e-mail application are:
It is accessible of ine as it can easily store e-mail on a computer.
It sends an immediate notification to a device.
It manages multiple e-mail addresses in one application.
4. Discuss the similarities between e-mail and Postal letters.
Ans. Though e-mail and postal letters belong to different time periods, yet there are many similarities between them.
Some of the notable similarities are as follows:
e-mail can be said to be the advanced version of a postal letter. ust as a postal letter is sent to a specific
address, an e-mail is also sent to a specific address known as the e-mail ID. The e-mail ID is however shorter
than the postal address.
Both postal letters as well as e-mail have specific sender, receiver and message.
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