IT Homework: Info on Email and GoogleMail.

Here is some info on Email and GoogleMail.

What is email, and how does it work.

Electronic mail is a method of writing, sending, receiving messages over electronic communication systems, otherwise known as store-and-forward. The term "e-mail" (as a noun or verb) applies to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, to network systems based on other protocols and to various mainframes, minicomputers, or the internet by a particular systems vendor, or on the same protocols used on public networks. E-mail is often used to deliver bulk unsolicited messages, or "spam", but filter programs exist which can automatically block, quarantine or delete some or most of these, depending on the situation.

The most typical sequence of events when sending an email:

Google Mail.

Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom, is a free web-based (webmail), POP3 and IMAP e-mail service provided by Google. On April 1, 2004 the product began as an invitation-only beta release. On February 7, 2007 the beta version was opened to the general public. With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically increased the standard for free storage.Gmail currently offers over 7100 MB of free storage (increasing approximately 3.348 MB daily), with additional storage ranging from 10 GB to 400 GB available for US$20 to $500 per year. It has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an internet forum. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its design, and has tens of millions of users.