what is an E-mail?

E-mail is known as Electronic mail. It is a method of exchanging digital information between sender and receiver. E-mail is most popular form of asynchronous communication. An e-mail message has three parts: the message envelope, the message header, and the message body. It is an effective and efficient means of mass distribution. Now- a- days, most businesses rely on e-mail for many internal communication needs. In businesses, people use e-mails to exchange, collect and store information about products and services. It has changed the way of interaction with people. In the past, e-mail system was based on File Transfer Protocol (FTP) but today e-mail system use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).Today, the model of e-mail is a store and forward model which enables the computer server to accept, send and store messages. World Wide Web (WWW) enables us to send e-mails.

Discussion/ your view

What you think about FTP and SMTP? How these work?

References:

Guffey, M.E., Rhodes, K., & Rogin, P. (2011). Business communication:  Process and product (6th Canadian ed.). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email