BTEC 2012

Unit 1 The Online World

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Lesson 8 Email
Starter What is email short for?
Electronic mail
1. Explain the store and forward system.
The email gets send to the router which sends it to the internet where the receiver can
download it
2. Explain the different fields highlighted in the picture below.

1.
2.
3.

1:
The name of the person you are emailing
2:
Carbon copy
3:
Blind carbon copy
3. List five positive and negative aspects of using email.
Positive:

1. Speed of delivery.
2. Delivery to multiply recipients
3. Instant delivery on a global scale
4. Having a record of the
correspondence between users.
5. Cost. Unlike the conventional mail
system, there is no additional cost to
the standard broadband charges.

Negative:

1. Spam
2. Viruses
3. Phishing scams
4. people can hack you
5. not having access to the internet

BTEC 2012
Unit 1 The Online World

Name: .

4. Explain the following email protocols used.

Acronym

Protocol

Description

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

The internet standard used for sending messages across

IP networks in server-toserver
transfers. Also used by email users to send a message to an email
server.

Post office protocol 3

Used to retrieve emails from an email server over

TCP connection.

SMTP

POP3

IMAP

Internet message Access

This is the other popular email retrieval.
Protocol
Explain how you would add an attachment to an email message. Use bullet points
rather than writing a sentence / paragraph.

Compose an Email
Click on the little paper clip
Browse your files
Select your document
Send
Plenary

a. What does BCC stand for and how does it work?

b. Who invented email?
A) BBC is where you can add a person to the recipient list but your other recipients
cant see their information.
B) Mr Ayyadurai and Mr Tomlinsons