E-mail
Electronic mail (abbreviated "e-mail" or, often, "email") is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term "e-mail" applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to intranet systems allowing users within one organization to e-mail each other. Often these workgroup collaboration organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service. E-mail is often used to deliver bulk unwanted messages, or "spam", but filter programs exist which can automatically delete most of these.
Usage of the term e-mail
Spelling of this term is disputed, and varies by field. While "e-mail" is used in journalism , the computer industry primarily uses the spelling "email" .[1] In particular, the original spelling is "email" (no hyphen), based on the technical roots of the term, as seen in the RFC documents for SMTP [4], POP [5] and IMAP [6], which use "mail" or "email". "E-mail" is capitalized at the beginning of a sentence and in headings.
Origins of e-mail ...