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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 ).
In 1993, both America Online (AOL) and Delphi started connecting their proprietary e-mail services to the Internet. [9] As of October 1997, AOL Mail was the world's largest e-mail provider, with around 9 million subscribers [10] (identical with the number of AOL subscribers). [11] In 1997, AOL launched NetMail, a web-based version of its e-mail ...
Søren Vejrum's "WWW Mail" was written when he was studying and working at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, and was released on February 28, 1995. [6] Luca Manunza's "WebMail" was written while he was working at CRS4 in Sardinia, from an idea of Gianluigi Zanetti, with the first source release on March 30, 1995. [ 7 ]
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Email management is a specific field of communications management for managing high volumes of inbound electronic mail received by organizations. Email management is an essential component of customer service management.
Originally, ARPANET, UUCP, and Internet SMTP email allowed 7-bit ASCII text only. Text files were emailed by including them in the message body. In the mid 1980s text files could be grouped with UNIX tools such as bundle [1] [2] and shar (shell archive) [3] and included in email message bodies, allowing them to be unpacked on remote UNIX systems with a single shell command.
RFC 5321, [2] defines an email address as a character string that identifies a user to whom mail will be sent or a location into which mail will be deposited. The term mailbox refers to that depository. In that sense, the terms mailbox and address can be used interchangeably. RFC 5322 defines a mailbox as follows: [3] A mailbox receives mail ...
USPS began looking into electronic mail in 1977. [6] E-COM was originally proposed on September 8, 1978, and service was expected to begin by December of that year. The proposal was caught up in a two-year regulatory dispute, and a modified version of the E-COM service as recommended by the Postal Rate Commission was approved on August 15, 1980, by the Postal Service Board of Governors.