Methods Part 1

9th, Monday, December

Email in short, is an electronic mail. There are multiple services that provides an email account for you to send messages and receive messages. You are probably wondering whether you can send pictures, files, documents and other attachments, the answer is yes this is totally possible, actually this has been available to people since 1971, but not the general public as it was rare that the consumer had a personal computer in their own homes. It was in 1996 that electronic mail was capable of more than just text, also by this year the rate of traditional mail (i.e. paper, envelopes) dropped by a large number. 

An email address firstly is set with a alias, user, name or a company name this will look like the following: 


name@emailprovider.com 

'name' is the alias or user name, which is then followed by the '@' sign, finally to finnish the email is the domain name which is 'emailprovider.com'.

When you receive an email from a friend or company you will need to make sure that you have some sort of anti-virus software, recommended would be macafee or avasti, if those are too much you can get a slightly worse freeware (meaning it's free) when opening as phishers and hackers send out emails for unsuspecting victims to pick up on and get in to their system which can lead to you getting money taken out of your account.

There are multiple ways of receiving emails you can either use an e-mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. These are only suggestions of course there are many clients to choose from, but what is more popular in most homes is to use the  email service that can be accessed through your internet browser these would be providers such as Gmail, Yahoo, Webmail the list goes on and on. 

Using the a e-mail client means you must have a server in order to store data whether that be pictures, documents or other attachments. This is done through an ISP (internet Service Provider) many browser providers are free and easy to set up. 

If you were to write a new email message to some one like have below, you can see there is many different fields in which need to be filled in to be able to send the email these are things like the CC (Carbon Copy), your email, the person who you are sending the message or attachment to, subject (what it is about in a few small words) and finally the message body from where you type your whole message, if you wish you could have a signature, this is compulsory to a job. As a recipient should know who the message is from and this shows that.