Definitions of Electronic mail [Sec. 2(9)]
- “Electronic mail” means that mail that is formed in electronic method and sent and received through internet and such other papers;
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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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Short for electronic mail, the transmission of messages over communicationsnetworks. The messages can be notes entered from the keyboard or electronic files stored on disk. Most mainframes, minicomputers, andcomputer networks have an e-mail system. Some electronic-mail systems are confined to a single computer system or network, but others havegateways to other computer systems, enabling users to send electronic mail anywhere in the world. Companies that are fully computerized make extensive use of e-mail because it is fast, flexible, and reliable.
Components of Electronic Mail
An Internet email message consists of three components,
-the message envelope,
-the message header, and
-the message body.
-The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator’s email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually descriptive information is also added, such as a subject header field and a message submission date/time stamp.