Electronic mail, often abbreviated as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use. 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. Rarely is e-mail transmitted directly from one user's device to another's.

An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.

Originally a text-only communications medium, email is extended to carry multi-media content attachments, which were standardized in with RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).

The foundation for today's global Internet e-mail service was created in the early ARPANET and standards for encoding of messages were proposed as early as, for example, in 1973 (RFC 561). An e-mail sent in the early 1970s looked very similar to one sent on the Internet today. Conversion from the ARPANET to the Internet in the early 1980s produced the core of the current service.

Network-based email was initially exchanged on the ARPANET in extensions to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but is today carried by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet Standard 10 (RFC 821) in 1982. In the process of transporting email messages between systems, SMTP communicates delivery parameters using a message envelope separately from the message (headers and body) itself.

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How do I forward all my e-mails from work to another e-mail id?
Q. Currenly I use my gmail id for work , it's a small company I want to forward all the e-mails that are "work related " from that e-mail to a new e-mail that I am going to create. How can I transfer those e-mails to this new account?? Please help.Thanks. I am sick of reading work related e-mails in my personal inbox. Thanks.
Asked by sum142121 - Wed May 27 17:42:59 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Automatic forwarding to any account is included free in Gmail. Just go to settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP. If you only want certain emails forwarded then create a filter at settings > filters. l q
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How many E-mail violations will it take to make yahoo cancel out an account?
Q. There are people here who ask people to answer honestly, but then yahoo doesn't like the answer, so they find me under violation and deleted the answer. No biggie. But has happened several times. I am afraid to answer any more, I've had my yahoo e-mail forever and I am afraid that participating in yahoo answers and having fun on here is going to cancel out my account.
Asked by worthiest_of_mortals - Sun Oct 26 14:36:47 2008 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. on my last account i received up to nearly 50 violations before i was suspended.
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How to receive E-mail at home that is being sent to my office computer?
Q. I'm receiving e-mail at my office through Microsoft Outlook and wanted to know if there was a way I could also continue to receive them at my home computer after I leave the office. Are there account setting changes to follow or software?
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A. Use Gmail.
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