E-Mail

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Electronic mail, most commonly abbreviated email and e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages. The example is from Yahoo.

If you use a different ISP the setup pages will be slightly different.

 

1. Enter www.yahoo.com into the address bar of Internet Explorer
   
2. The following page will appear:

 

You will need to click the Mail option as shown. 
This will take you to another page.

3. From the page shown below you will need to click the Get Yahoo! Mail Now link.

4. The following page will appear:
   

5. Click on Sign Up for Yahoo! Mail and the following page will appear:

6. You must select a username and password which you will use to access your email account. 
   Choose a username but you must remember that this must be different to any other person’s username.
   You should now continue to fill in all information including a password that you will be able to remember.
   
7. Finally on this page you will need to press the Submit This Form button

Always remember to sign out when you have finished using your email.  This will stop other people from using your e-mail account. Write down somewhere your username and password where you will be able to advise anytime you want to access your email at later stage.

Exercise 15

You can easily type a message to all your friends, colleagues or everyone that you want. Please try the next exercise:

1. Go to mail.yahoo.com and insert your already registered username and password.
2. Then click on New icon and the following screen will appear:

In the line “To:” please insert the e-mail address of your friend or colleague.
In the line “Cc” you can add additional e-mail address
In the line “Subject” you can insert the theme of the e-mail
Then on the blank space please insert your message as you already done in Word processor.
You could attach some files – photos or documents by using the Attach Files Icon.  Click on the attach file button which usually can be illustrated by a clipper  . Then a choose file window will appear. Browse through your files to find the required file.

Then you can choose the file that you want to attached and press the button Open. Once you have attached the file you will need to return to the e-mail message on your previous window and press the button “Send” and your message will be delivered to the sender.
All messages you receive are stored in the “Inbox” folder.
All messages you have sent are stored in the “Sent” folder.
All messages deleted are stored in the “Trash” folder.

You could forward some your messages by using the icon “Forward” from the main screen Menu and then insert the e-mail address of the potential received and then press the button “Send”.