1. EMAIL RYAN HICKLING

2. WHAT IS AN EMAIL An email messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network. send an email to (someone).

3. FIRSTLY Find a reliable email service such as Gmail, Hotmail, yahoo mail and outlook.

4. SECONDLY Sign up for the website of you choice and put all the information that the email site needs. Click here for yahoo

5. THIRDLY Sign into your email account and you are ready to use your email so you can sign up for Facebook, eBay and other sites which you want sign up for.

6. SUBJECT The "Subject" of an email message should be a short summary of its contents. Email clients usually display it in a mailbox display together with the sender.

7. CARBON COPY (CC) Carbon copy is When you send an e-mail message, you typically type the recipient's address in the "To" field. If you want to send the message to one or more other recipients, you can use the "Cc" field to add additional addresses. This will send the e-mail to the address in the "To" field and to each address listed in the "Cc" field as well.

8. BLIND CARBON COPY A BCC (blind carbon copy; also Bcc) is a copy of an email message sent to a recipient whose email address does not appear in the message.

9. TO SEND A ATTACHMENT When you want to send a file to someone you press the paperclip icon.

10. REPLY ALL If you click Reply All, your reply will be addressed to the sender of the original message and all other recipients of that message.

11. REPLY If you click Reply, your reply will only go to the sender of the original message.

12. FORWARD Forward is an option found in an e-mail client, which allows you to forward a received e-mail to another recipient. The e-mail will be sent with the body of the e-mail showing as "quoted text". Recipients of a forwarded e-mail can usually tell the e-mail is a forward. Some clients will place the letters "FWD" in front of the Subject field.

13. EXAMPLE OF OUT OF OFFICE REPLY

14. PROTOCOLS POP is the older design, and hails from an era when intermittent connection via modem (dial-up) was the norm. POP allows users to retrieve email when connected, and then act on the retrieved messages without needing to stay on-line. This is an important benefit when connection charges are expensive. IMAP is the newer protocol and oriented toward a "connected" mode of operation. The standard IMAP procedure is to leave messages on the server instead of retrieving copies, so email is only accessible when on-line.

15. ADVANTAGES OF USING AN EMAIL Emails are delivered extremely fast when compared to traditional post. Emails can be sent 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Webmail means emails can be sent and received from any computer, anywhere in the world, that has an Internet connection. Cheap - when using broadband, each email sent is effectively free. Dial-up users are charged at local call rates but it only takes a few seconds to send an email. Emails can be sent to one person or several people.

16. DISADVANTAGES OF USING A EMAIL The recipient needs access to the Internet to receive email. Viruses are easily spread via email attachments (most email providers scan emails for viruses on your behalf). Phishing - sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be a legitimate company to scam the user into providing information, such as personal information and bank account numbers on a bogus website. The details will then be used for identity theft. No guarantee the mail will be read until the user logs on and checks their email. Spam - junk mail.