Email and important terms

Email parts
Email address specifications
How email is send and received
Protocols important in context
webmail versus mail server
o Short for electronic mail, e-mail or email is informa on stored on
a computer that is exchanged between two users over
telecommunica ons.

o e-mail is a message that may contain text, files, images, or other

a achments sent through a network to a specified individual or
group of individuals.
Parts of email
When you CC people on an email, the CC list is visible to all other
recipients.
For example, if you CC and on an
email, Bob and Jake will both know that the other received the
email, as well.
The BCC ("blind carbon copy") field is similar to CC, except the
recipients are secret.
 Each BCC recipient will receive the e-mail, but will not see who
else received a copy.
The addressees (anyone listed in the "To" field) remain visible to
all recipients.
This field is optional.
BCC stands for “blind carbon copy.” Unlike with CC, no one but
the sender can see the list of BCC recipients.

For example, if you have and in the

BCC list, neither Bob nor Jake will know that the other received the
email.
Someone on the BCC list can see everything else,
including the CC list and the contents of the email.

However, the BCC list is secret—no one can see this list
except the sender.

If a person is on the BCC list, they’ll see only their own

email on the BCC list.
E-mail address breakdown
•The space and special characters: ( ) , : ; < > \ [ ] are allowed.

Occasionally, a space, backslash, and quotation mark work but must be

preceded with a forward slash.
Although valid, some e-mail providers do not allow these characters.

•The username and e-mail addresses as a whole cannot begin or end with
a period.
(Alterna vely referred to as a full stop or dot, a period ( . ) is a punctua on mark)

•The e-mail must not have two or more consecutive periods.