HOW THEY WORK : “How The E-Mail works”

The E-Mail is acrimony for the term “Electronic Mail”. In most of our day to day life, we are faced by so many “electronic” this and “electronic” that; we could conclusively say that, the term electronic means, the application of a digital or electronic system some where is the process relied upon by that subject matter. We hear of “Electronic Bills”, “Electronic Fuel systems”, “electronic” this or that. In our subject for today, we shall try to explorer what the term “Electronic Mail” stands for and what it is. First and foremost, this involves the preparation and transmission of a sort of a mail. Some years ago (say a decade or so), people relied upon the Postal System for all their Mailing needs, not anymore! One analyst once said that, “the E-Mail is the Nightmare of the Postal Service”, true, the E-Mail has signaled the decline of the traditional Postal system. Whereas, people used to send thousands or even millions of physical mails around the globe in say a month, this time round, that figure may have declined by nearly 75% or higher. These have been instead replaced by the electronic counterparts whose numbers have soared to billions on a daily basis. Every day, the members of the Internet send each other billions of e-mail messages. If you’re online a lot, you yourself may send a dozen or more e-mails each day without even thinking about it. Obviously, e-mail has become an extremely popular communication tool. Have you ever wondered how e-mail gets from your computer to a friend halfway around the world? What is a POP3 server, and how does it hold your mail? The answers may surprise you, because it turns out that e-mail is an incredibly simple system at its core. In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look at e-mail and how it works. According to statistics, the first e-mail message was sent in 1971 by an engineer named Ray Tomlinson. Prior to this, you could only send messages to users on a single machine. Tomlinson’s breakthrough was the ability to send messages to other machines on the Internet, using the @ sign to designate the receiving machine. An e-mail message has always been nothing more than a simple text message, a piece of text sent to a recipient. E-mail messages tend to be short pieces of text, although the ability to add attachments now makes many messages quite long. Even with attachments, however, e-mail messages continue to be text messages in nature. The E-Mail system requires basically two things; the E-Mail Server and the Client, no matter which type of client you’re using, it generally does four things; Shows you a list of all of the messages in your mailbox by displaying the message headers. The header shows you who sent the mail, the subject of the mail and may also show the time and date of the message and the message size. Lets you select a message header and read the body of the e-mail message. Let’s you create new messages and send them. You type in the e-mail address of the recipient and the subject for the message, and then type the body of the message. Lets you add attachments to messages you send and save the attachments from messages you receive. eddie@afrowebs.com