email

Also known as electronic mail, e-mail

thumb|right|This screenshot shows the "Inbox" page of an email client; users can see new emails and take actions, such as reading, deleting, saving, or responding to these messages. thumb|When a "robot" on Wikipedia makes changes to image files, the uploader receives an email about the changes made. Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving digital messages using electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the late–20th century as the digital version of, or counterpart to, mail (hence e- + mail).

AI overview

Email is a method of transmitting and receiving digital messages between people using electronic devices connected to a computer network. It became important as a digital alternative to traditional mail, allowing people to send and receive written messages quickly and easily.

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Research

243,380 papers

Your "out of the office" email is not fooling me.ReviewEMBO reports · 2024Smith DRDOI: 10.1038/s44319-024-00145-2
Email--from "to" to "send".ReviewAAOHN journal : official journal of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses · 2007Granberry NDOI: 10.1177/216507990705500305
Management by email...or mismanagement?Nursing management · 2021DOI: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000737780.71791.ed
Email Consultations Between Patients and Doctors in Primary Care: Content Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Atherton H, Boylan AM, Eccles A et al.DOI: 10.2196/18218
Improving undergraduate students' email etiquette with computer-based instruction.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Farnsworth TG, Thompson RHDOI: 10.1002/jaba.1074
Email recruitment for chronic pain clinical trials: results from the LAMP trial.Trials · 2024Ferguson JE, Hagel Campbell E, Bangerter A et al.DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08301-8
Longitudinal email-based electrocardiogram interpretation curriculum for paediatric residents.Cardiology in the young · 2024Van Der Bosch M, Soohoo MDOI: 10.1017/S1047951124026714
Email Nudges Increased Eligibility Verification And Subsidy Receipt In California's ACA Marketplace.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2024Myerson R, Feher ADOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01524

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Unicode character: 📧
Commons category: E-mail
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/email
time of discovery or invention: 1971-00-00
P8168: Kington
P13411: Jean Moulin

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Article

42 sections

Contents

Terminology
History
Operation
Message format {{anchor|Internet Message Format}}
Message header
Header fields
Message body
Content encoding
Plain text and HTML
Servers and client applications
Filename extensions
URI scheme mailto
Types
Web-based email
POP3 email servers
IMAP email servers
MAPI email servers
Uses
Business and organizational use
Email marketing
Personal use
Personal computer
Mobile
Declining use among young people
Issues
Attachment size limitation
Information overload
Spam
Malware
Email spoofing
Email bombing
Privacy concerns
Legal contracts
Flaming
Email bankruptcy
Internationalization
Tracking of sent mail
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving digital messages using electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the late–20th century as the digital version of, or counterpart to, mail (hence e- + mail). Email is a ubiquitous and very widely used communication medium; in current use, an email address (commonly local-part + @ + domain name) is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries.