Electronic mail ( email or e-mail ) is a method of exchanging messages (" mail ") between people using electronic devices. Invented by Ray Tomlinson , email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. Email operates across computer networks , which today is primarily the Internet . Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.
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Electronic mail ( email or e-mail ) is a method of exchanging messages (" mail ") between people using electronic devices. Invented by Ray Tomlinson , email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. Email operates across computer networks , which today is primarily the Internet . Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2017 |
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Electronic Mail ( email or e-mail ) is a method of exchanging messages between people using electronic devices. Email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. Email operates across computer networks , which today is primarily the Internet . Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2016 |
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Electronic mail is a method of exchanging digital messages between people using digital devices such as computers, tablets and mobile phones; email first entered substantial use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognised as email . Email operates across computer networks , which in the 2010s is primarily the Internet . Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect only briefly, typically to a mail server , for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2015 |
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Electronic mail , most commonly called email or e-mail since around 1993, [2] is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the Internet or other computer networks . |
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| 2014 |
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Electronic mail , most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since c 1993, [2] is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks . Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to a mail server , for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. Historically, the term electronic mail was used generically for any electronic document transmission. For example, several writers in the early 1970s used the term to describe fax document transmission. [3] [4] As a result, it is difficult to find the first citation for the use of the term with the more specific meaning it has today. |
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| 2013 |
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Electronic mail , most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since ca. 1993, [2] is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks . Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to a mail server , for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2012 |
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Electronic mail , commonly referred to as email or e-mail , is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks . Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to an email server , for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2011 |
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Electronic mail , commonly known as email or e-mail , is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks . Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to an email server , for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2010 |
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Electronic mail , commonly called email or e-mail , is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks . Originally, email was transmitted directly from one user to another computer . This required both computers to be online at the same time, a la instant messaging . Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Users no longer need be online simultaneously and need only connect briefly, typically to an email server , for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. |
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| 2009 |
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Electronic mail , often abbreviated as email , e.mail or e-mail , is a method of exchanging digital messages. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device (e.g., a personal computer) for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Originally, e-mail was always transmitted directly from one user's device to another's; nowadays this is rarely the case. |
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| 2008 |
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Electronic mail , often abbreviated to e-mail , email or eMail , is any method of creating, transmitting, or storing primarily text-based human communications with digital communications systems. Historically, a variety of electronic mail system designs evolved that were often incompatible or not interoperable. With the proliferation of the Internet since the early 1980s, however, the standardization efforts of Internet architects succeeded in promulgating a single standard based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet Standard 10 ( RFC 821 ) in 1982. |
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| 2007 |
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E-mail , short for electronic mail and often abbreviated to e-mail , email or simply mail , is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term "e-mail" (as a noun or verb) applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to X.400 systems, and to intranet systems allowing users within one organization to e-mail each other. Intranets may use the Internet protocols or X.400 protocols for internal e-mail service supporting workgroup collaboration . E-mail is often used to deliver bulk unsolicited messages, or "spam" , but filter programs exist which can automatically delete some or most of these, depending on the situation. |
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| 2006 |
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Electronic mail (abbreviated " e-mail " or, often, " email ") is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term "e-mail" (as a noun or verb) applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to intranet systems allowing users within one organization to e-mail each other. Often these workgroup collaboration organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service. |
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Electronic mail , abbreviated e-mail or email , is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term e-mail applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to workgroup collaboration systems allowing users within one company or organization to send messages to each other. Often workgroup collaboration systems natively use non-standard protocols but have some form of gateway to allow them to send and receive internet e-mail. Some organizations may use the internet protocols for internal e-mail service. |
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E-mail , or email , is short for " electronic mail " (as opposed to conventional mail, in this context also called snail mail ) and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. Most e-mail systems today use the Internet , and e-mail is one of the most popular uses of the Internet. |
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E-mail , or email , is short for "electronic mail " and refers to composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. Most e-mail systems today use the Internet , and e-mail is the most popular use of the Internet. |
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E-mail , or email , is short for "electronic mail" and refers to composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. Most e-mail systems today use the Internet , and e-mail is the most popular use of the Internet. |