electronic mail
electronic mail (e-mail or email) Messages sent between users of computer systems, the computer systems being used to hold and transport messages. Sender and receiver(s) need not be online at the same time, or even on the same continent, to communicate. Messages can be sent with file
attachments, providing a way of exchanging files with other users. Electronic mail is an important component of an office automation system.
The originator of a message creates a specially formatted message file by running a mail-sending program. The message may often be entered and modified using the general-purpose editor of the user's choice. When the message is complete, it is posted to a message transport system, which takes responsibility for delivering the message. This may involve passing the message through a
store-and-forward relay system when the sender and receiver are not connected to the same computer. At some later time the message is delivered into the recipient's incoming “mailbox”. The recipient runs a program that retrieves incoming messages, allowing items to be filed, listed, forwarded, replied to, etc. Frequently a single user-interface program is used to send and receive messages both locally and worldwide.
Originally electronic mail was performed by using standard text hardcopy or CRT terminals. Newer systems support the composition and delivery of
multimedia mail, which can combine text, graphics, voice, fax, and other forms of information in a single message. Other functions often performed by an electronic mail system include verification of a user's identity, expansion of named mailing lists into lists of recipients, and the location of a user on the basis of partial information (directory services).
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Electronic filing.(Technology in Tax Filing)
Magazine article from: Accounting Today; 8/11/1997; 700+ words
; ...electronically; offering E-mail for account resolution; offering electronic powers-of-attorney and...transcripts; providing expanded electronic payment options; providing...to those clients who use electronic tax administration programs...
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Electronic Mail's Delivery Problems; Firms Give Stamp of Approval, but Seek Integrated Systems
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/21/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...quite sure how many electronic mail systems it has. Perhaps...workers down the hall. Electronic mail, also known as...Washington-based Electronic Mail Association. About...system. Revenues in the electronic mail marketplace rose...
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Electronic imaging
Magazine article from: Office Systems; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...electronically through LANs, e-mail, or fax. Electronic imaging systems can be purchased...businesses. Getting started on electronic imaging The transition from...or microfilm-based files to electronic imaging takes careful and thorough...
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Electronic filing; a case study.
Magazine article from: The National Public Accountant; 5/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...Becoming an IRS-accepted electronic filer increases the preparer...check payable to the IRS and mail before the filing deadline...entitled to a refund and the electronic filer option exists, the...documents until a successful electronic transmittal is made; (5...
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-ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: Speakers to share views on future for electronic commerce
M2 Presswire; 6/17/1998; 700+ words
; ...year, is designed to make electronic commerce understandable to...Number Association (ANA), Electronic Commerce Association (ECA...Communications (EEMA), Electronic Commerce 98 is an independent...44 (0)1273 241127 e-mail: enquiries@e-commerceshow...
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Electronic Commerce: A Guide for Public Officials.
Magazine article from: Government Finance Review; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...mind when implementing electronic commerce. To be competitive...governments must embrace electronic commerce. Governments already are dabbling in electronic commerce by using fax...purchasing, employing voice mail, and creating interactive...
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Electronic contracting. (brings changes in business, legal matters)(Murray's Law)(Column)
Magazine article from: Purchasing; 10/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...happening. We now speak of electronic data interchange (EDI) and electronic message systems (EMS). E-mail is already making the...offer, the seller would mail an acceptance. The...of law school. But, electronic messages do not use...
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Electronic UFOC disclosure: can you and should you? More franchisors are answering these questions with an emphatic "yes".(TAMING TECHNOLOGY)(Uniform Franchise Offering Circular)
Magazine article from: Franchising World; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...impediment. How to Deliver Electronic UFOCs NASAA's proposal...disclosure document by electronic means (Internet, e-mail, diskette and so on...personal meeting, and electronic delivery, usually by e-mail or by password-protected...
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Electronic filing offers advantages to taxpayers and tax preparers. (includes related article on computer hardware, software) (Electronic Tax Filing Enters the Mainstream)
Magazine article from: Accounting Today; 6/21/1993; 700+ words
; ...Tax Declaration for Electronic Filing, must be sent by mail. "We want to get...detection into the electronic i*fling program...been lost in the mail or mishandled at...the advantages of electronic filing are many...
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Electronic Filing in the Federal Appellate Courts
Magazine article from: Justice System Journal; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...through the Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) systems...have also already implemented electronic filing. In addition to permitting...quickly and remotely through e-mail, electronic submission promises several advantages...
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Electronic Publishing
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
...readers. In some cases, electronic publications — such...delivered to a reader's e-mail address. Despite many predictions in the late 1990s that electronic publishing would render print...publishing obsolete, demand for electronic publications thus far has...
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Electronic Data Interchange and Electronic Funds Transfer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management
...EDI also differs from other types of electronic communications among computers, such as electronic mail, network file sharing, or downloading...through a modem. In order to access electronic mail messages, shared network files...
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Electronic Commerce
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...The telephone permitted electronic voice transactions and...companies like Sears, whose mail-and telephone-order...Internet. This form of electronic commerce began in 1968, when what was called Electronic Data Interchange permitted...
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Photography, Electronic
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...photographer can see the electronic image; but, by the late 1990s, electronic cameras used viewfinders...manipulated and transmitted via e-mail and other methods using computer...x2014; the means by which an electronic camera “ sees...
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Electronic Mail
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
ELECTRONIC MAIL ELECTRONIC MAIL. The exact origins of electronic mail (or E-mail) are difficult to pinpoint, since there were many nearly simultaneous inventions, few of which were patented or widely announced. According to the standard...
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