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Subikash Rath: PRN No: 102027

The document provides an overview of email, including its origin and history, how email servers work, common uses and limitations of email, and email etiquette. It discusses how email evolved from early host-based systems allowing communication between users on the same computer to today's store-and-forward email systems relying on SMTP and accessed through webmail services. The document also covers how email is used in society and business and outlines some potential downsides like spam, viruses, and privacy concerns.

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Subikash Rath: PRN No: 102027

The document provides an overview of email, including its origin and history, how email servers work, common uses and limitations of email, and email etiquette. It discusses how email evolved from early host-based systems allowing communication between users on the same computer to today's store-and-forward email systems relying on SMTP and accessed through webmail services. The document also covers how email is used in society and business and outlines some potential downsides like spam, viruses, and privacy concerns.

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SUBIKASH RATH

PRN No: 102027


Contents
• What is email?
• Origin
• Working of email Servers
• Uses
• Limitations
• E-Mail Etiquette
Email and History
• Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-
mail, is a method of exchanging digital
messages across the Internet.
• Email was transmitted directly from one user
to another computer. This required both
computers to be online at the same time.
• Today's email systems are based on a store-
and-forward model.
Email and History
• Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store
messages.
• Originally a text-only communications medium, email
was extended to carry multi-media content
attachments called MIME (Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extensions)
• Network-based email was initially exchanged on the
ARPANET in extensions to the File Transfer Protocol
(FTP), but is now carried by the Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP),
Origin
• MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
first demonstrated the Compatible Time-
Sharing System (CTSS) in 1961.
• Host-based mail systems: This systems
allowed communication only between
users who logged into the
same host or "mainframe“.
Origin
• LAN-based mail systems: Eventually these
systems could also be linked between different
organizations, as long as they ran the same
email system and proprietary protocol.
• Email ID: hubhost!middlehost!edgehost!
user@uucpgat
eway.somedomain.example.com
Working
Uses
• In Society
• Flaming
• In Business
Limitations
• Attachment size limitation
• Information overload
• Spamming and computer viruses
• E-mail spoofing
• E-mail bombing
• Privacy concerns
• Tracking of sent mail
E-Mail Etiquette
• Use The Subject Line
• Be Brief and Concise
• Keep it personal
• Reply Quick
• Don’t over-punctuate
• Don’t use all Capitals
• Read it, out Loud before sending
• Don’t write when you are angry
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