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An '''Email Address''' is a string of characters which is used to identify an '''Internet Mailbox''', where messages can be sent to be stored while a person (or computer) is not actively online.

'''Email Addresses''' are usually identified by the "at" symbol in them: @

The basic format of an email address is:

<pre>
mailbox-name@address
</pre>
Some examples of email addresses are:
<pre>
john@example.com
thecat@thehat.com
u45128xoi1234@pobox.penn.co.uk
freeaddress@gmail.com
</pre>

To send and receive email, two [[Internet Protocols]] are used:
* [[Protocol:SMTP|Simple Mail Transport Protocol]] for sending, and
* [[Protocol:POP|Post Office Protocol]] for receiving

'''Sending''' email was developed using a similar model to sending a letter via post: '''Anyone can drop a letter in the mailbox and send it to any other address.'''

However, this model breaks down because sending a letter via post actually costs money (currently $0.42 in the United States) while sending email costs virtually nothing.

Because of the cost of sending email is effectively zero, this has led to a preponderance of '''Unsolicited Email''', or [[Spam:Email|Email Spam]]. This has become such a nuisance that an entire industry has developed to deal with [[Spam:Email|Email Spam]].

Receiving email at a particular '''email address''' requires [[Authentication]], and is often used as a form of authentication on the internet.

== Email Clients ==
When email was first developed, it required an ''email program'' which supported the above protocols to send and receive email. The original email programs were:
* Mozilla Thunderbird
* Outlook Express
* Outlook
* Eudora Mail
* Opera Mail
* Netscape Mail
* [http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/support/library/software/email/blitzmail/ Blitzmail] from [http://www.dartmouth.edu Dartmouth College]

== Free Online Email Services ==
At the advent of the internet in the mid-1990s, the development of 100% web-based email took off, and many companies offering purely web-based email. Today, there are hundreds of free email services available.
* [http://www.hotmail.com Hotmail] acquired by Microsoft
* [http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail]
* [http://www.gmail.com Gmail] from Google

== Related Topics ==
* [[Email Marketing]]
* [[Email Design]]

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 To send and receive email, two [[Internet Protocols]] are used:
-* [[Protocol:SMTP|Simple Mail Transport Protocol]] for sending, and
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-* [[Protocol:POP|Post Office Protocol]] for receiving
+* [[POP|Post Office Protocol]] for receiving
 '''Sending''' email was developed using a similar model to sending a letter via post: '''Anyone can drop a letter in the mailbox and send it to any other address.'''

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Lori at 16:24, 8 February 2019

Lori at 16:23, 8 February 2019

Admin at 02:43, 15 October 2009

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