How Email Works

This is a collection of very informative articles from HowStuffWorks.com that explains it all!

1. Introduction to How E-mail Works
   Every day, the citizens of the Internet send each other billions of e-mail messages. If you are online a lot, you yourself may send a dozen... read more
   
   
2. How E-mail Works: The POP3 Server
   In the simplest implementations of POP3, the server really does maintain a collection of text files -- one for each e-mail account. read more
    
3. How does the e-mail notification in my Web browser work?
   Several web browsers have extensions or options that let people know when e-mail is waiting in one or more of their inboxes. read more
   
   
4. How does faxing over e-mail work?  
   Services that allow people to send faxes via e-mail work on the same principle, but a computer and the Internet take the place... read more
   
   
5. What do you call the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses?
   Russian for "little dog" Before it became the standard symbol for e-mail, the @ symbol was typically used to indicate the cost or weight... read more
   
   
6. How do viruses and worms spread in e-mail?
   There are all sorts of things you can find in your e-mail box. In the "destructive" and/or "annoying" category go e-mail attachments that contain all sorts of nasty creatures... read more

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