SUBIKASH RATH

PRN No: 102027

 Contents
• What is email?
• Origin
• Working of email Servers
• Uses
• Limitations
 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. It allowed multiple users
to log into the IBM 7094from remote dial-up
terminals, and to store files online on disk.
• 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
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