E-Mail
Approximately 60 billion emails are sent everyday by 1.3 billion email users (this doesn’t include spammessages). This is a testament to the power of internet communication. Electronic mail, or e-mail, allows computer users locally and worldwide to exchange messages. Each user of e-mail has a mailbox address to which messages are sent. Messages sent through e-mail can arrive within a matter of seconds.A powerful aspect of e-mail is the option to send electronic files to a person's e-mail address.Email has become such a normal method of communication, that a majority of colleges, upon enrollment at their University, assign students their own email address to coincide with their individual school web portal (which normally contains information about the student’s classes financial aid etc.).Non-ASCII files, known as binary files, may be attached to e-mail messages. These files are referred to as MIME attachments.MIME stands for Multimedia Internet Mail Extension, and was developed to help e-mail software handle a variety of file types. For example, a document created in Microsoft Word can be attached to an e-mail message and retrieved by the recipient with the appropriate e-mail program. Many e-mail programs, including Eudora, Netscape Messenger, and Microsoft Outlook, offer the ability to read files written in HTML, which is itself a MIME type.
Approximately 60 billion emails are sent everyday by 1.3 billion email users (this doesn’t include spammessages). This is a testament to the power of internet communication. Electronic mail, or e-mail, allows computer users locally and worldwide to exchange messages. Each user of e-mail has a mailbox address to which messages are sent. Messages sent through e-mail can arrive within a matter of seconds.A powerful aspect of e-mail is the option to send electronic files to a person's e-mail address.Email has become such a normal method of communication, that a majority of colleges, upon enrollment at their University, assign students their own email address to coincide with their individual school web portal (which normally contains information about the student’s classes financial aid etc.).Non-ASCII files, known as binary files, may be attached to e-mail messages. These files are referred to as MIME attachments.MIME stands for Multimedia Internet Mail Extension, and was developed to help e-mail software handle a variety of file types. For example, a document created in Microsoft Word can be attached to an e-mail message and retrieved by the recipient with the appropriate e-mail program. Many e-mail programs, including Eudora, Netscape Messenger, and Microsoft Outlook, offer the ability to read files written in HTML, which is itself a MIME type.
