What is Electronic Mail (E-mail)

          E-mail is the most widely used features on the Internet. You can exchange any message with people around the world by using E-mail. Even with the multimedia excitement of the Web, Electronic Mail (email) is the most frequently used application of the Internet. Many people who have access to the Internet at school, home, and work, use the Internet for no other purpose than to send and receive email.

            It’s all very easy. You create the message, log onto the Internet, and send it. The message first goes to your Internet Service Provider’s mail server, which in turn sends it to the recipient’s mail server. On the way your message may go through several servers, each reading the domain name in order to route it to the appropriate server. The message then remains in the recipient’s mail server until he requests it by “checking his mail”

E-mail address:

            E-mail address is the location of individual’s mailbox on the Internet. An email address is required to send and receive email. Email address are different from “snail mail” address. They usually consist of theree parts: a user name, and “at” symbol (@), and a domain name. for example: ram@wlink.com.np

1.    User name: ram

           Located to the left of the @ symbol, a user name identifies your account on the email server that handles the email. For example,  Ram Khanl might choose “ram” as his username. However, someone may have already chosen hemanta, so have some other choices ready. Choose a user name that sounds professional and is easy to remember.

2.    @

            Means “at” and separates your account name and the name of the mail server name. for example, ram “is located at” wlink.com.np

3.    Domain Name: wlink.com.np

           

            The domain name usually consists of two pieces of identifying information. The first piece is the name of the email server and is located to the right of the @ symbol. For example, wlink is the name of the email server. The second piece, sually a three-letter extension, indicates the top-level domain. They are seprated by periods, called “dots.”

Pconsider choosing a user name that protects your identity instead of your first and/or last name.

Top Level Domains

            Top-Level domains may help you figure out the type of organization the recipient is associated with. See the cart below.

PIf there is a two-letter extension, it is usually a country code. For example, Malaysia user “my.”

            au         =          Australia

            ca         =          Canada

            np        =          Nepal

            jp         =          Japan

            us         =          United States

            in          =          India

PBecause not everyone uses top-level domains correctly, they are not always a reliable way to determine an organization’s association.

E-mail program and features:

            E-mail program is that program, which helps to send, receive and manage your incoming and outgoing message. Some E-mail programs are as follows:

            1.         Internet Mail (Comes with Internet Explorer)-(offline)

            2.         Outlook Express (Comes with Internet Explorer 5)-(Offline)

            3.         Yahoo mail (Online)

            4.         Hotmail (Online)

            5.         Gmail (Online)

            6.         AOL (Online)

            7.         Rediffmail (Online) etc.

Most email client software allows you to:

·                    Display a list of received messages. Each message header shows you who sent the mail, the subject line, the time and date it was sent, and at times, the size of the message.

·                    Select the message header and read the message.

·                    Create new messages.

·                    Reply to, forward, and delete messages.

·                    “Attach” files (called attachments) to messages you send.

·                    Save the attachment you receive.

Some email clients offer:

·                    Address book/Contacts: Use the electronic address book to track personal information such as name, title, email addresses, home and work addresses, phone numbers, and much more.

·                    Newsgroup functionality: You can use your email client to access Usenet, an online public bulletin board system (BBS). Usenet features a broad range of discussion topics called newsgroups.

·                    Calendaring: Schedule important dates, appointments, tasks, and electronic reminders.

There are mainly 4 locations inside the E-mail programs:

            1.   Inbox              : It contains receiving mails.

            2.   Outbox            : When we send mails then it will store at Outbox folder at first.                                                    

            3.   Sent items      :  After sending mail, after connecting your computer to the                          

                                            internet then it will store at sent items folder.

4.      Deleted items : When we delete any unrequited mails, then it will store at Deleted items folder.

But we can make other locations (i.e. folders) as our requirements.

How to connect your computer to the Internet using Dial-up?

            You can connect your computer directly to the Internet by just double clicking on the Internet Explorer icon form the Desktop or any available location. However, the following process is also suitable for you.

1.                  First contact to the service provider for getting Internet line by double clicking on connect to.. (Service provider) icon on the Desktop or inside the Dial Up Networking.

2.                  Then Connect to dialog box will appear.

3.                  Then type username and password and click on connect button.

4.                  Then Service Provider verifies the user name and password. If given user name and password matches to the Service Provider’s record then Service Provider gives the Internet line.