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  electronic mail
       
           (e-mail) Messages automatically passed from one
          computer user to another, often through computer networks
          and/or via modems over telephone lines.
       
          A message, especially one following the common RFC 822
          standard, begins with several lines of headers, followed
          by a blank line, and the body of the message.  An increasing
          number of e-mail systems support the MIME standard which
          allows the message body to contain "{attachments" of
          different kinds rather than just one block of plain ASCII
          text.  It is conventional for the body to end with a
          signature.
       
          Headers give the name and electronic mail address of the
          sender and recipient(s), the time and date when it was sent
          and a subject.  There are many other headers which may get
          added by different message handling systems during delivery.
       
          The message is "composed" by the sender, usuallya using a
          special program - a "{Mail User Agent" (MUA).  It is then
          passed to some kind of "{Message Transfer Agent" (MTA) - a
          program which is responsible for either delivering the message
          locally or passing it to another MTA, often on another host.
          MTAs on different hosts on a network often communicate using
          SMTP.  The message is eventually delivered to the
          recipient's mailbox - normally a file on his computer - from
          where he can read it using a mail reading program (which may
          or may not be the same MUA as used by the sender).
       
          Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net.
       
          The form "email" is also common, but is less suggestive of the
          correct pronunciation and derivation than "e-mail".  The word
          is used as a noun for the concept ("Isn't e-mail great?", "Are
          you on e-mail?"), a collection of (unread) messages ("I spent
          all night reading my e-mail"), and as a verb meaining "to send
          (something in) an e-mail message" ("I'll e-mail you (my
          report)").  The use of "an e-mail" as a count noun for an
          e-mail message, and plural "e-mails", is now (2000) also well
          established despite the fact that "mail" is definitely a mass
          noun.
       
          Oddly enough, the word "emailed" is actually listed in the
          Oxford English Dictionary.  It means "embossed (with a raised
          pattern) or arranged in a net work".  A use from 1480 is
          given.  The word is derived from French "emmailleure",
          network.  Also "email" is German for enamel.
       
          The story of the first e-mail message
          http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm)" rel="nofollow">(http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm).
       
          (2002-07-14)
       
       

  Electronic mail \E`lec*tron"ic mail\, n. (Computers)
     1. a message transmitted from one computer to another,
        accessible by means of a mail reading program on the
        receiving computer. The message may have one or many
        intended recipients, and may be directed by the sending
        program to one or to multiple receiving computers. The
        message is typically in the form of a computer file, and
        may be a simple ASCII text, or any other type of binary
        coded information
  
     Syn: email. [PJC]

  electronic mail
       n : (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic
           communication in which a computer user can compose a
           message at one terminal that is generated at the
           recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn: e-mail, email]
           [ant: snail mail, snail mail, snail mail]

  electronic mail
     Αγγλικά n.
     το ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο

  electronic mail
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable networking) email (the system).
     2 (lb en countable dated) An email.

  electronic mail
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable networking) email (the system).
     2 (lb en countable dated) An email.

  electronic mail
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable networking) email (the system).
     2 (lb en countable dated) An email.

  electronic mail
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable networking) email (the system).
     2 (lb en countable dated) An email.

  electronic mail
     Englanti n.
     sähköposti

  electronic mail /ɪlɛktɹˈɒnɪk mˈeɪl/
  elektronická pošta

  electronic mail /ɪlɛktɹˈɒnɪk mˈeɪl/
  elektronische Post , E-Post , E-Mail  [comp.]
           Note: Nachrichtensystem
     Synonyms: e-mail, email
  
   see: have email
  

  electronic mail /ɪlɛktɹˈɒnɪk mˈeɪl/ 
  1. इलैक्ट्रानिक~डाक
        "Electronic mail is revolutionising communication."

  electronic mail /ɪlɛktɹˈɒnɪk mˈeɪl/
  elektronička pošta

  electronic mail /ɪlɛktɹˈɒnɪk mˈeɪl/
  1. poștă electronică
  2. mesaj electronic