See also: Information | E-Mail Etiquette | E-Mail Clients | WebMail | Spam | Encrypting Your Mail
Shortform: Electronic Mail
Alternate: Email
Example: username@domain.org
One of the most common communication tools on the Internet. E-mail is frequently thought to be “Internet email”, but the electronic transferring of messages has little to directly do with the Internet, merely a common highway to transfer messages.
As it is so common, unsolictied e-mail is one of the biggest headaches on the Internet. Known as “Spam,” a continual battle against it takes place daily.
Contents
E-mail Protocols
E-mail Clients
Please see the entry E-Mail Clients
E-mail Servers
This list is not exhaustive.
Reading Email Headers
Being able to discipher the header information of an email, a source code for e-mail messages, is an invaluable step in understanding the systems through which the e-mail was transported. It plays an important part in identifying email spoofing and spam.
- Google Search: Reading Email Headers
- Stopspam.org
- Tinhat.com
- The Academic Computing and Communications Centre article
- G.E. Boyd’s Everything by E-Mail Web Page
Related:
TakeDown.NET -> “E-Mail”