Topic 9: Email

An email is an electronic message sent from one computer to another using a communication device such as a computer, telephone, PDA etc

Email facilities

• Standard outgoing signature and message
• Group email
• Using cc and bcc
• Attatching files
• Address books
• Naming email groups and folders

Other facilities

• Seatch
• Reply
• Forward
• Create a signature

Group email

• You form a group of people from all the people you send email to
• You can then send email to a particular group of people
• This saves lots of time

Using cc and bcc

Cc means carbon copy

• You list the email addresses of people yoiu want to send a copy of the email to after the cc

Bcc means blind carbon copy

• This allows you to send copies of emails to others without them being able to see each other's email addresses

Attatching files

• Files can be sent with an email
• Useful for sending work from school/college to your home computer
• Can attach any type to file (e.g. image, word processing document etc.)
• Files are sometimes compressed before sending

Address book

• Allows you to create a list of contact details
• If you want to send an email to someone, you just click on their name and their…