E-Mail (derived from electronic mail, or simply email or mail in the context of computing) is an Internet application for sending mail between people. E-Mail can collectively refer to the protocols, media types, DNS records, agents, and other systems that comprise the application; or just SMTP, the protocol that delivers a message to an inbox.
Uses for E-Mail
- Delivering a message to a recipient
- Sending small attachments
E-Mail Concepts
- Address — denotes which mailbox a message should be delivered to
- SMTP — used for delivering email to a recipient
- IMAP — Protocol for reading and synchronizing an email from an inbox
- POP3 — Protocol for transferring email to a local inbox
- DNS — several essential mail functions are configured using DNS records
- Media type (MIME type) — The name of the syntax used to encode/decode the document