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Email

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…

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Overview

Terminology

History

Operation

Message format

Servers and client applications

Types

Uses

Issues

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Email

Nodes210
Edges209
Triples227
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009524
Components1

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Email

Top relations

related to Operation · 24
Email → Alice, Bob's MUA, DNS, Domain Name System, FQDA, IMAP, Internet Message Access Protocol, ISP, MDA, MSA, MTA, MTAs, MUA, MX, POP3, Post Office Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, SMTP, The, The DNS
related to Message format · 22
Email → ARPANET, ASCII, CC, Date, Earlier, From, In, International, Internet, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, MIME, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, Published, RFC, SMTP, Subject, The, These
related to Terminology · 17
Email → American English, April, Author's Address, British English, Comments, CompuServe, E-COM, E-mail, Electronics, IETF Requests, It, June, RFC, RFCs, The, This, United States Postal Service
has application · 15
Email → Accepting, IMAP, LDAs, Lotus Notes, MDAs, Messages, Microsoft Exchange Servers, MTA, MTAs, MUAs, Novell Groupwise, POP, Programs, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Users
related to history · 15
Email → ARPANET, CompuServe, Computer-based, DEC's ALL-IN-1, File Transfer Protocol, Hewlett-Packard's HPMAIL, HP DeskManager, IBM, In, MIT's CTSS, Most, Over, Proprietary, RFCs, Xerox
related to MAPI email servers · 13
Email → Axigen Mail Server, Bynari, HP OpenMail, IBM Lotus Notes, Kerio Connect, MAPI, Messaging Application Programming Interface, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook, Scalix, Zarafa, Zimbra
related to External links · 12
Email → An Emerging Global Threat, Dave Crocker's, E-Mail Compromise, Electronic Mail, FBIExplained, History, IANA's, Look, Network Email, Origins, RFCs, The History
related to Message header · 9
Email → ASCII, Each, Field, It, MIME, RFC, SMTPUTF8, Some, The
related to Attachment size limitation · 8
Email → Furthermore, However, In, Internet, Microsoft Word, PDF, Typical, Where
related to URI scheme mailto · 8
Email → IANA, Many, SMTP, The URI, Though, To, URL, URLs

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mail messages message header internet may used server many address using use also fields smtp field clients users often client

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Emailis aubiquitous and very widely used communication medium0.90text
Emailis atraditional form used in RFCs for the0.90text
Emailis ashort0.90text
imagesinstance ofInternet email was extended by MIME to carry text in expanded character sets and multimedia content0.80text
Frominstance ofThe header is structured into fields0.80text
Toinstance ofThe header is structured into fields0.80text
CCinstance ofThe header is structured into fields0.80text
Subjectinstance ofThe header is structured into fields0.80text
Dateinstance ofThe header is structured into fields0.80text
and other information about the emailinstance ofThe header is structured into fields0.80text
underlinesinstance ofuse emphasis0.80text
italicsinstance ofuse emphasis0.80text

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