What is E-mail?
E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. E-mail messages are usually encoded in ASCII text. However, you can also send graphic images and sound files, as attachments. A large percentage of the total traffic over the Internet is e-mail. E-mail can also be exchanged between online service provider users and in networks other than the Internet, both public and private.
How E-mail works in 5 steps:
Message Sender: uses mail software, called a client, to compose a document, possibly including attachments such as tables, photographs or even a voice or video recording.
Internet mail address: attached to each message is in the form "mailbox@domainname"। The multipart domain name in the above example denotes a top-level domain ("।com") following the second-level domain ("seniorindian")
Mail submission server: converts the domain name of the recipient’s mail address into a numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address। It does this by querying domain name servers interspersed throughout the Internet.
Routers: dispersed throughout the Internet read the IP address on a packet and relay it toward its destination by the most efficient path
Destination mail server: place the packets in their original order, according to the instructions contained in each packet, and stores the message in the recipient’s mailbox.
E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. E-mail messages are usually encoded in ASCII text. However, you can also send graphic images and sound files, as attachments. A large percentage of the total traffic over the Internet is e-mail. E-mail can also be exchanged between online service provider users and in networks other than the Internet, both public and private.
How E-mail works in 5 steps:
Message Sender: uses mail software, called a client, to compose a document, possibly including attachments such as tables, photographs or even a voice or video recording.
Internet mail address: attached to each message is in the form "mailbox@domainname"। The multipart domain name in the above example denotes a top-level domain ("।com") following the second-level domain ("seniorindian")
Mail submission server: converts the domain name of the recipient’s mail address into a numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address। It does this by querying domain name servers interspersed throughout the Internet.
Routers: dispersed throughout the Internet read the IP address on a packet and relay it toward its destination by the most efficient path
Destination mail server: place the packets in their original order, according to the instructions contained in each packet, and stores the message in the recipient’s mailbox.
Here is a basic diagram showing how email works:
