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electronic mail
(encz) | electronic mail,elektronická pošta |
Electronic mail
(gcide) | Electronic mail \E`lec*tron"ic mail\, n. (Computers)
1. a message transmitted from one computer to another,
accessible by means of a mail reading program on the
receiving computer. The message may have one or many
intended recipients, and may be directed by the sending
program to one or to multiple receiving computers. The
message is typically in the form of a computer file, and
may be a simple ASCII text, or any other type of binary
coded information
Syn: email. [PJC] |
electronic mail
(wn) | electronic mail
n 1: (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic
communication in which a computer user can compose a
message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the
recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in; "you
cannot send packages by electronic mail" [syn: {electronic
mail}, e-mail, email] [ant: snail mail] |
electronic mail
(foldoc) | electronic mail
e-mail
(e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one
computer user to another, often through computer networks
and/or via modems over telephone lines.
A message, especially one following the common RFC 822
standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed
by a blank line, and the body of the message. Most e-mail
systems now support the MIME standard which allows the
message body to contain "attachments" of different kinds
rather than just one block of plain ASCII text. It is
conventional for the body to end with a signature.
Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the
sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent
and a subject. There are many other headers which may get
added by different message handling systems during delivery.
The message is "composed" by the sender, usually using a
special program - a "Mail User Agent" (MUA). It is then
passed to some kind of "Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a
program which is responsible for either delivering the message
locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host.
MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using
SMTP. The message is eventually delivered to the
recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from
where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may
or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender).
Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net.
The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the
correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail". The word
is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are
you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent
all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaning "to send
(something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my
report)"). The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an
e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well
established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass
noun.
Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the
Oxford English Dictionary. It means "embossed (with a raised
pattern) or arranged in a net work". A use from 1480 is
given. The word is derived from French "emmailleure",
network. Also, "email" is German for enamel.
{The story of the first e-mail message
(http://pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm)}.
{How data travels around the world
(http://www.akita.co.uk/movement-of-data)}
(2014-10-07)
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Electronic mail
(gcide) | Electronic mail \E`lec*tron"ic mail\, n. (Computers)
1. a message transmitted from one computer to another,
accessible by means of a mail reading program on the
receiving computer. The message may have one or many
intended recipients, and may be directed by the sending
program to one or to multiple receiving computers. The
message is typically in the form of a computer file, and
may be a simple ASCII text, or any other type of binary
coded information
Syn: email. [PJC] |
electronic mail address
(foldoc) | electronic mail address
e-ddress
e-mail address
(Usually "e-mail address") The string used to
specify the source or destination of an electronic mail
message. E.g. "john@doc.acme.ac.uk".
The RFC 822 standard is probably the most widely used on the
Internet. X.400 was once used in Europe and Canada.
UUCP-style (bang path) addresses or other kinds of {source
route} became virtually extinct in the 1990s.
In the example above, "john" is the local part which is the
name of a mailbox on the destination computer. If the
sender and recipient use the same computer, or the same LAN,
for electronic mail then the local part is usually all that is
required.
If they use different computers, e.g. they work at different
companies or use different Internet service providers, then
the "host part", e.g. "sales.acme.com" must be appended after
an "@". This usually takes the form of a {fully qualified
domain name} or, within a large organisation, it may be just
the hostname part, e.g. "sales". The destination computer
named by the host part is usually a server of some kind
rather than an individual's workstation or PC. The user's
mail is stored on the server and read later via client mail
software running on the user's computer.
Large organisations, such as universities will often set up a
global alias directory which maps a simple user name such as
"jsmith" to an address which contains more information such as
"jsmith@london.bigcomp.co.uk". This hides the detailed
knowledge of where the message will be delivered from the
sender, making it much easier to redirect mail if a user
leaves or moves to a different department for example.
(2014-10-07)
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electronic mail client
(foldoc) | electronic mail client
Mail User Agent
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play by electronic mail
(foldoc) | play by electronic mail
PBEM
A kind of game where the players use electronic mail
to communicate. This may be done via a human moderator or
an automatic mailing list exploder on some central machine
or it may be fully distributed with each player just
addressing his mail to all other players.
This is a natural extension of "play by mail" games conducted
via snail mail.
(http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~gl8f/pbm.html). Usenet
newsgroup: news:rec.games.pbm.
(1994-10-27)
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