Definition of e-mail E-mail

We found 11 definitions of e-mail from 4 different sources.

What does e-mail mean?

Verb e-mails, e-mailing, e-mailed
e-mail - communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news"
		email, netmail
		telecommunicate communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail
		computer science, computing the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
		spam send unwanted or junk e-mail

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e-mail (Noun)
A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
e-mail (Noun)
A message sent via an e-mail system.
e-mail (Noun)
A quantity of e-mail messages.
e-mail (Noun)
An e-mail address.
e-mail (Verb)
To send an e-mail or e-mails to.
e-mail (Verb)
To send, or compose and send, an e-mail or e-mails.
e-mail (Verb)
To send via e-mail.

e-mail
Information or message that is transmitted or exchanged from one computer terminal to another, through telecommunication.
e-mail
To compose and send an electronic message.

Electronic mail (or e-mail or email) is an Internet service that allows those people who have an e-mail address (accounts) to send and receive electronic letters. Those are much like postal letters, except that they are delivered much faster than snail mail when sending over long distances, and are usually free. To send or receive an email, you need a gadget (computer, phone etc) connected to the Internet and an e-mail program (simply called mailer). Several formats exist for email addresses. The most common, called RFC 2822, looks like user@domain.com. E-mail messages are sent mostly by text, and sometimes by HTML style.

Like with regular mail, users may get a lot of unwanted mail. With e-mail, this is called spam. Some programs used for sending and receiving mail can detect spam and filter it out nearly completely.

Some companies let you send and receive emails for free from a remote website. Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! do this kind of service: known as "web mail".