Task 2: Email

After doing the net.TUTOR "email basics" tutorial, I am now able to answer the task questions on email.

From an email message, you are able to find out the email messages recipients, the subject (through the subject line), any attachments which may be included in the email, and then you will also receive the text body, and the contact information/ signature of the sender.

Commonly used functions of email are Cc, Bcc and "reply to all". Cc is used to send a copy of a message to someone. Bcc is used as a 'blind copy'. A blind copy allows you to send a copy of the message but recipients are not visible. The "reply to all" function allows the sender to send to all recipients of the original message which they are replying to.

To help ensure an email attachment is received successfully by a recipient, keep it in a format that can be opened by the recipient's software (if you don't know what software the recipient has then keep it is a common format such as .rtf), compress large files, and name your attachments appropriately.

Filters work to search and divide mail. This way you can selectively read your incoming mail when it is convenient. For instance you can set up a junk filter to exclude spam messages from your inbox, or you can filter your inbox for certain words or senders. I always keep the junk filter on.

My email is sorted according to subject. This allows me to keep my inbox empty, but I can also easily find any email I am looking for by using the search mail option in my email.