How does e-mail work?
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Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, 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 company or organization to send messages to each other. Often these workgroup collaboration systems natively use non-standard protocols but have some form of gateway to allow them to send and receive Internet e-mail. Some organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service.\n\nFor diagram check:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/How_e-mail_works.png\n\n1 Alice composes a message using her mail user agent (MUA). She types in, or selects from an address book, the e-mail address of her correspondent. She hits the "send" button. Her MUA formats the message in Internet e-mail format and uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send the message to the local mail transfer agent (MTA), in this case smtp.a.org, run by Alice's Internet Service Provider (ISP). \n2 The MTA looks at the destination address provided in the SMTP protocol (not from the message header), in this case bob@b.org. A modern Internet e-mail address is a string of the form localpart@domain.example. The part before the @ sign is the local part of the address, often the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name. The MTA looks up this domain name in the Domain Name System to find the mail exchange servers accepting messages for that domain. \n3 The DNS server for the b.org domain, ns.b.org, responds with an MX record listing the mail exchange servers for that domain, in this case mx.b.org, a server run by Bob's ISP. \n4 smtp.a.org sends the message to mx.b.org using SMTP, which delivers it to the mailbox of the user bob. \n5 Bob presses the "get mail" button in his MUA, which picks up the message using the Post Office Protocol (POP3).
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This is one of those questions that are difficult to answer without specifics. Type of e-mail program, what attachments, are you at work (behind a firewall), etc.
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You're covered by the e-mail
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You don't need anything on your computer to make it work. Yahoo mail is webmail therefore it functions independently of your computer and can thus be accessed from anywhere in the world.\n\nIt sounds to me as though your mail box is full. This is the only reason why Yahoo mail would not work. If your mailbox is full, delete all read mail that you do not need to keep. The other thing you might wish to check ((if your mail box isn't full) is your cookie settings. Is your computer set up to receive cookies from Yahoo?
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They have interactive websites that have robots. When you sign up, (when you press register), your e-mail is inserted into their database. The same page that inserts your e-mail in to the database, sends a greeting e-mail to you. After that, with those e-mails, they create newsletters and send them to you, and the other users. You must have a web space and install various applications on it like mailing lists, etc. for more details, let me know.
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The imporatnce of electronic mail in today's world is that it makes people's communication from around the world easier and faster. With electronic mail there would be no fear of losing important documents if it is send through snail mail. You can get a reply from someone immediately if it is very important and imminent.
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(pronounced as separate letters) Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another; the messages can then be retrieved with an e-mail client using either POP or IMAP. In addition, SMTP is generally used to send messages from a mail client to a mail server. This is why you need to specify both the POP or IMAP server and the SMTP server when you configure your e-mail application.
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happens to me too; it's just the way the e-mail link is coded.  Just copy the address from outlook and paste it into Yahoo email and it will work fine.
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First,you have to know their e-mail address of course.If you regularly e-mail people just e-mail your friend like the others,if not,depending who your internet provider is you either use their e-mail system or yahoo e-mail or whatever works to send an e-mail.
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This is a step by step howto guide to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system. It is easy to follow, but you end up with a powerfull secure mail server.\n\nThe server accepts unlimited domains and users, and all mail can be read via your favourite clients, or via web mail.\n\nIt is secure, traffic can encrypted and it will block virtually all spam and viruses.
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Short Message Service\n\nA little bit like the SMTP (Send Mail Transfer Protocol).
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Here's a good comparison of email clients.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients\n\nLet me know if this is the best answer.  Hope it helps!
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sorry buddy......when an email is sent.....due to current technology....it is automotically downloaded to the recieving email account in a matter of seconds....unless you knew the password to the other account....then it is going to be read.....in outlook ur talking about a lan network......in the big world if it was offically sent then its sent....
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There are basically two types of mail services - \n1. POP \n2. IMAP \n\nPOP mails are not accessible from any other computer. But IMAP are Internet based mails and can be accessed anywhere.
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Here is the process when using a mail client such as Outlook Express.\n\nWhen you send a message it is transferred from your mail client (e.g. Outlook Express) to the server using SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.  SMTP is designed for sending messages.\n\nYou can get a feel for how this works by sending mail using the telnet procotol.  Check out the first link.  It's a good testing method for system administrators.\n\nNow that the server has the message, it must deliver it to the recipient's mail server.  Obviously it needs the address.  It determines this using the domain name portion of the email address.  For example for user@yahoo.com the domain is yahoo.com.\n\nComputers don't really "talk" using the friendly names that we do like yahoo.com.  Each computer has a number called an IP address.  That's where DNS comes in.  It translates friendly names to IP addresses.  What's more, there is a special DNS record for mail servers called an MX record.  So in short, the next step is to get the IP address of the recipient's mail server by querying DNS for the domain's MX record.\n\nYou can see this in action.  Open a command prompt and enter "nslookup -querytype=mx yahoo.com" and you'll see a list of IP addresses for Yahoo's mail servers.\n\nOnce the server has the IP address it again uses SMTP to send the message to the recipient's mail server.\n\nFinally the recipient uses POP or Post Office Protocol to retrieve the message.  POP simply downloads emails.\n\nDone!
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U CANT - GET SOMEONE TO SEND IT TO YOUR E MAIL
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It sounds like your computer isn't set up to do e-mail at all, or perhaps you're using some non-Microsoft program (like AOL) to do it, and Works is not interacting with it.\n\nIf you can do e-mail from your machine at all, you should save the document (perhaps on your desktop, or My Documents directory) and then in the mail program, ATTACH it to a piece of e-mail that you create.