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Unit 1 The Online World
Lesson 8 Email
(Student Book B Pg 8 - 10)
Starter What is email short for?
Electronic Mail
1. Explain the store and forward system.
When one person sends a message, it is stored on an email serer. !t "aits in
store
#ntil the re$ipient signs in, at "hi$h point the serer %or"ards the message to
them. The s&stem is 'no"n as a store and %or"ard s&stem .
2. Explain the different fields highlighted in the picture below.
1: To (eld "here &o# enter re$ipients) email addresses
2: C$ (eld Car*on $op&
+: B$$ (eld Blind $ar*on $op&
3. ist fi!e positi!e and negati!e aspects of using email.

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1.
2.
3.
Positive:
. -peed o% delier&.
. Cost. Unli'e the $onentional mail
s&stem, there is no additional $ost to
the standard *road*and $harges.
. !nstant delier& on a glo*al s$ale.
. /elier& to m#ltiple re$ipients.
. ,tta$hments 0e.g. do$#ments and
a#dio and ideo (les1.
Negative:
2 3ria$& and se$#rit&. 3eople $an
ha$'
into &o#r emails and read material
"hi$h sho#ld not *e aaila*le. -ome
o% that material ma& pose a ris' to
&o#r se$#rit&, that o% &o#r emplo&er
or een that o% the nation.
2 !nternet a$$ess. The %a$t that
*oth
sender and re$ipient0s1 hae to hae
email a$$o#nts $an *e a pro*lem.
-ome people do not hae a$$ess to
the internet 0or $hoose not to #se it1
so &o# $annot ass#me that
eer&one
has an email a$$o#nt.
2 -ometimes a la$' o% intera$tiit&
ma& *e a pro*lem. !n sit#ations
"here an instant repl& or intera$tie
dis$#ssion is needed, email does
hae limitations i% the parti$ipants
are
not online at the same time.
2 -pam.
2 4ir#ses.
2 3hishing s$ams.
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Unit 1 The Online World
". Explain the following email protocols used.
Aron!m Protool "esri#tion
#M$%
#imple Mail
$ransfer %rotocol
$he internet standard used for sending messages
across &% networ's in ser!er(toser!er transfers.
)lso used by email users to send a message to
an email ser!er
%*%3
%ost *ffice
%rotocol 3
+sed to retrie!e emails from an email ser!er o!er a
$,%-&% connection. $his is the most widely used email
retrie!al protocol. .ormally users download emails to
their local computer using %*%3/ deleting them
from the email ser!er
&M)%
&nternet Message
)ccess %rotocol
$his is the other popular email retrie!al protocol.
.ormally users wor' on the emails as they reside on the
email ser!er using &M)% and do not download them.
0. +se the space below to draw a diagram showing how email wor's. +se some of the 'ey
terms you
ha!e learn.
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1. Explain how you would add an attachment to an email message. +se bullet points rather
than writing a sentence - paragraph.
Plenar!
a. What does 2,, stand for and how does it wor'?
b. Who in!ented email?
2,, stands blind carbon copy.
iva Ayyadurai
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