Email Basics
Webmail and Email Clients
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Webmail
Webmail is often designated for email access and composition in user-friendly ways. Most often email is accessed from the Internet browsers, these days. For more information about webmail, see the following link.
Email Clients
Email clients provide access to email accounts through apps on computers or mobile devices. More information on email clients can be found in the below link.
Troubleshooting Email
Sometimes, email runs into problems. Most of these problems can be resolved.
A number of problems with email can occur in email accounts. The ones outlined below are the primary issues people encounter.
Unable to send email
Not getting sent email
Unable to send or receive email
Too much spam is coming into the email account
Email gets bounced back
Here is a link to a guide to email issues troubleshooting.
There are other resources on the Internet, too, on troubleshooting email issues. It is important to rely on authentic troubleshooting resources. Some examples of these types of resources are Microsoft's Support web pages and Thunderbird Help web pages.
Some email issues require the assistance of the email service provider to resolve. There are email issues that they can only resolve.
Address Books
Address books are often used to access email addresses which have been used before. An address book is almost like the traditional address book for phone numbers. However, email address books have the ability to create a new email message that can be edited to send to a person or more than one person. An address book is almost like the traditional address book for phone numbers. The key components of an entry for an email contact are the following.
Name
Email address
See the following link.
Email Headers
An email message is associated to an email header. Email headers are used to provide email servers information regarding the email message the email header has in it. Some data in an email header are the following.
Date
Sender's email address
Recipient's email address
Security protocol information
Email text
An example of an email header is seen in the following link.
How can a person utilize an email header?
Identifying real email addresses of people who spoof email addresses
Determining the IP address of an email server of a spammer
Reporting emails that are required to be reported to authorities
Adding email server IP addresses to spam filters for blocking emails from specific servers
See the following page for more details.
Public Email Addresses
Email addresses in public domains can be accessed by anyone who sees them. An example of a publicly listed email address is the following.
Email address example: info@ecalculator.com
Email addresses on organizational websites are for contact purposes. Email address listings on organizational web pages are increasingly becoming less common. Instead, more secure methods of email contacting are being put in place of posted email addresses.
Most often, public entities use the option of having textboxes appear on websites for people to enter a message in the textbox and click on the, 'Send' or 'Submit' button to send the email to an undisclosed email address. This reduces the chances of spam being sent to the email account of the undisclosed email address. If the recipient of the email chooses to respond to the sender's email, the sender can then send a response directly to the email address the email form sent to original message to. Often, email forms do not permit file attachments to be included. This is usually the case.
For more information, see the following page.
Did you know: It is important to always have an alternate email account in case you get locked out of your primary email account so you are able to contact Support to regain access to it. |
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