Email

Email

What is email?


Email, also sometimes written as e-mail, is simply the shortened form of electronic mail, a protocol for receiving, sending, and storing electronic messages. Email has gained popularity with the spread of the Internet. In many cases, email has become the preferred method of communication. It is nessecary to have a connection to the internet to use email. There are many different types of email clients ranging from Outlook Express on windows or an email service provided online by websites such as Hotmail or Gmail.


An email system allows you to:

• See your messages in your inbox or mailbox, showing senders name, subject of the message, and the date and time it was sent.
• You are able to select email messages you want to look at. 
• You can compose messages with a subject and textual information.You can then send this message to other email addresses. 
• You can add attachments to mails and save attachments from mails.

Features of Gmail


Gmail has a new setting which allows you to only read important messages and sift out unwanted Spam emails. This is achieved by creating clever algorithms and codes to organise your emails. All Spam and offer email will go to the bottom of your inbox list as these are less important to the person.




Gmail in comparison to hotmail has a star feature which allows you to put important and memorable emails in a folder so you can read them again. Hotmail doesn't have this tool and it therefore makes it harder to find emails that are important to you.

Tools like this prevent information overload by organising your email.

For a system like this to work effectively, it needs to have time to understand the way you use email. The classification and tool effectiveness should improve, because you can mark messages with 'less important' or 'more important', and Gmail will learn to reclassify according to your needs. It's like the inverse of junk mail filtering.

Gmail will make your email experience easier and quicker to access the emails you want to and save you time going through Spam email. 

Gmail Layout

Buzz

Another interesting feature of Gmail is Google Buzz. Google Buzz is used on a PC or mobile, Buzz is a social networking RSS all within the existing Gmail and Google.com infrastructure. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox on their Gmail email.

• Automatic friends lists (friends are added automatically who you have emailed on Gmail)
•   Quick and fast sharing of media which combines sources like Picasa and Twitter into a single feed, and it includes full-sized photo browsing.
•  Public and private sharing interchange between family and friends.
•  Inbox integration, Buzz features emails that update with your Buzz status and comments. New posts and comments pop are shown as they happen, no refreshing is necessary.