Email Message
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An Email Message is a mail message that is sent in an Email Event (with an email client over an email protocol).
- AKA: E-Mail, Email.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Personal Email to being a Broadcast Email.
- It can range from being a Relevant Email to being a Spam Email,
- It can be a member of an Email Corpus (such as an Enron email corpus).
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- Counter-Example(s):
- an Instant Message.
- an SMS Message.
- a Mail Letter.
- an HTTP Request.
- See: Written Artifact, Electronic Communication.
References
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=email
- S: (n) electronic mail, e-mail, email ((computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in) "you cannot send packages by electronic mail"
- S: (v) e-mail, email, netmail (communicate electronically on the computer) "she e-mailed me the good news"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail
- Electronic mail, most commonly abbreviated email and e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail computer server systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Originally, e-mail was always transmitted directly from one user's device to another's; nowadays this is rarely the case.
- An electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.
- Originally a text-only communications medium, email was extended to carry multi-media content attachments, which were standardized in with RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).