The term electronic mail has been in use with its modern meaning since 1975, and variations of the shorter E-mail have been in use since 1979:
• email is now the common form, and… See more

The basic Internet message format used for email is defined by RFC 5322, with encoding of non-ASCII data and multimedia content attachments defined in RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions or … See more

Web-based email
Many email providers have a web-based email client. This allows users to log into the email… See more

Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible after the advent of time-sharing in the early… See more

The following is a typical sequence of events that takes place when sender Alice transmits a message using a mail user agent (MUA) addressed to the email… See more

Messages are exchanged between hosts using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol with software programs called mail transfer agents (MTAs); and delivered to a mail store by programs … See more

Business and organizational use
Email has been widely accepted by businesses, governments and non-governmental… See more