19 Facts About Electronic mail

Electronic mail is a method of exchanging messages between people using electronic devices.

EElectronic mail later became a ubiquitous communication medium, to the point that in current use, an eElectronic mail address is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries.

EElectronic mail is the medium, and each message sent therewith is called an eElectronic mail .

EElectronic mail operates across computer networks, primarily the Internet, and local area networks.

Originally an ASCII text-only communications medium, Internet eElectronic mail was extended by Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions to carry text in other character sets and multimedia content attachments.

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Term electronic mail has been in use with its modern meaning since 1975, and variations of the shorter E-mail have been in use since 1979:.

In 1971 the first ARPANET network Electronic mail was sent, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the '@' symbol designating the user's system address.

Each eElectronic mail message has a header, comprising a number of fields .

Some Electronic mail servers apply eElectronic mail authentication systems to messages relayed.

When opening an eElectronic mail, it is marked as "read", which typically visibly distinguishes it from "unread" messages on clients' user interfaces.

Small portable devices like smartphones are increasingly used to check eElectronic mail while traveling and to make brief replies, larger devices with better keyboard access being used to reply at greater length.

EElectronic mail has been widely accepted by businesses, governments and non-governmental organizations in the developed world, and it is one of the key parts of an 'e-revolution' in workplace communication .

EElectronic mail has become used on smartphones and on all types of computers.

Technology writer Matt Richtel said in The New York Times that eElectronic mail was like the VCR, vinyl records and film cameras—no longer cool and something older people do.

EElectronic mail spoofing occurs when the eElectronic mail message header is designed to make the message appear to come from a known or trusted source.

An example of a potentially fraudulent eElectronic mail spoofing is if an individual creates an eElectronic mail that appears to be an invoice from a major company, and then sends it to one or more recipients.

EElectronic mail bombing is the intentional sending of large volumes of messages to a target address.

MIME now allows body content text and some header content text in international character sets, but other headers and eElectronic mail addresses using UTF-8, while standardized have yet to be widely adopted.

Original SMTP Electronic mail service provides limited mechanisms for tracking a transmitted message, and none for verifying that it has been delivered or read.