Electronic mail, also known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks.
History[]
Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to a dedicated server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.
References[]
- Electronic mail at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 2014-10-07.
External links[]
- Email at Wikipedia