Course Outline

           Email Basics


              Lesson 1:What is Email?
              Lesson 2:Sending Email
              Lesson 3:Reply
              Lesson 4:Forward             

What is E-mail:
	Short for electronic mail, E-mail is a service of the Internet. It allows us to send electronic messages in the
form of text to an e-mail account. This e-mail account can later be accessed by an individual to receive the message. 
We can also use e-mail to send files along with a message. These files are known as attachments. Therefore, e-mail is
your personal connection to the world of the net.

An e-mail address is the combination of a user name and a domain name that identifies a user so he or she can receive 
Internet e-mail.

An e-mail program is software used to create, send, receive, forward, store, print, and delete e-mail messages. E-mail 
can be a very effective tool. It is much faster and more effecient than regularmail, in terms of sending messages. It is
 also a prefferable tool because it allows us to transfer files from one computer to another without the use of a 
secondary storage device.

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Sending email:
	You send mail to people at their particular addresses. In turn, they write to you at your e-mail address. You 
can subscribe to the electronic equivalent of magazines and newspapers. You might even get electronic junk mail. To 
compose a message you will first have to click on the Compose link at the top of the screen. In the To section you will
fill out the e-mail address of the person you wish to send the e-mail to. The subject is a brief summary of what the 
e-mail is about (it should be about two to five words). When finished click on the send button. The webmail system 
offers a much more descriptive help system which can be accessed from the webmail site.

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Reply:
	Sometimes you recieve mail from someone and then after reading it, you compose a message which you will send 
back to the person. this message is called a reply since by creating a message to respond to the persons mail, it is 
said that you have replied.

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Forwarding:
	Forward is when a person recieves an e-mail message and then send the same message out to different persons.

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