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For example: orangebooks@gmail.com
authors_orange@hotmail.com
anjana.shalini@outlook.com
myaccount@orangeeducation.in
Structure of an Email Message
Following are the major sections of an email message:
• Header: This section allows you to enter the following information:
w From: Email address of the sender.
w To: email address of the recipient.
w Cc (Carbon Copy): This option is generally used when we want the same message to be sent to a large group of
people at the same time. The list of all the recipients will be displayed in the received message header. We can also
use this option when we want another person to be informed of the mail sent to the recipient.
w Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy): This Email address is invisible to a recipient. This option is used when you want to send
a copy of an email to another person without bringing it to the knowledge of the recipient. It will not be displayed
in the received message header.
w Subject: It is the brief discussion of the topic of the message.
• Body: This is the actual content of the email written by the sender. It consists of the message and the signature of
the sender.
• Attachments: We can attach any type of file like word document, presentation, any program code, audio, video etc.
It is usually a symbol of a paper pin. Select this option to open a dialog box which gives access to files stored in your
device. Select a proper path to attach the required file.
• Date: It is the date and time of sending a message.
The first email was sent in 1971. Ray Tomlinson, the engineer who invented the email
program on the ARPANET system.
CREATING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT
Before we get into this process of sending and receiving an email, it is important to create an email account. Either we
can have a paid email service by creating an email using an ISP server or we can create an email account by using a free
web based email service provider. Some of the commonly used are: Hotmail.com, Gmail.com, Outlook.com, Yahoo.
com, rediffmail.com etc. You can write the email address of any of these in the address bar of any browser window. Let
us now proceed to create an email account in the Gmail email service:
Step 1: Connect your computer to the Internet and type www.gmail.com in the address bar browser window. It will
display the following screen:
Step 2: Click on Create account option.
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