Electronic E-mail

Introduction to E-mail

Sending and receiving messages and files electronically is known  as e-mail. A user can send messages from computer to anyone in  the world who has an e-mail account. Peoples can also attach  pictures, programs and sounds with an e-mail.

E-mail Account

Storage area or "mailbox" supplied by and email service provider   is called e-mail account. Each e-mail account has a unique address.Email account can be obtained by registering with ISPs (Internet Service Provider) or e-mail service provider such as Hotmail,Yahoo and Gmail.

Mailbox

E-mail address

A unique address of and e-mail account is called an e-mail address. As e-mail address consists of two parts:

1) User name or ID.

2) Domain ( The name of the computer that stores the e-mail messages).

Yahoo mail and Hotmail

The internet companies or organizations which provide the facility of e-mail are known as e-mail service providers. These are several e-mail service prov who provide their service free of cost. Yahoo mail and Hotmail are some of the most popular and reliable web-based e-mail service providers

We can access their e-mail service by creating an e-mail account. The web addresses of Yahoo mail and Hotmail are given below


Yahoo
Hotmail

Hotmail homepage

Yahoomail homepage

Creating Hotmail Account

Open your browser 

Type www.hotmail.com in the address bar.

The Hotmail home page appears as follows.
  


 For creating a new account click on the Sign up. 

 A user Registration form appears.

Fill this registration form and click I accept.

Finally the following page appears which confirms your e-mail account.

You will recieve one message welcoming you to Hotmail.

Click on the message to read it.

Hotmail welcoming page appears.

To Sign out ot log out of Hotmail.

Click on the Sign Out button on the upper right as shown in the picture.

Hotmail will log you out of the system.