Creating an E-Mail Account

 

Creating an E-Mail Account 

Email, short for Electronic Mail, is a component of internet. It is a fast and economic way of sending messages to individuals and groups of people. Messages can include text, pictures or animations.

This section discusses on creation and accession of an email account, opening and reading of received mails and composing and sending mails. Several sites on the internet allow you to create an email account and send and receive email and attachments for free, for example gmail.com, hotmail.com, rediff.com, yahoo.com. This session focus on the services available through Gmail as it is free and is the most popular email service available today. 


E-Mail Address 

To send or receive an email, you must have an email address. This address is unique in nature and it has two important parts. The first part is the ‘user name’ and the other is the ‘domain name’. These two are separated by a special symbol @. The domain name can be same for lots of people. For example cmfri@gmail.com and cmfri1@gmail.com are two addresses with the same domain name gmail.com. But the user names cmfri and cmfri1 are different and hence the addresses are different.



Setting up an email account  

1. Connect to the Internet by double-clicking the Google chrome, Internet Explorer or Firefox desktop icon.


2. Go to the Gmail site by typing gmail.com into the address bar at the top of the screen, and press the Enter key on your keyboard. 


3. You should see a screen that looks like this: 

4. Click on the Create an Account link at the bottom of the box and following window will be displayed. Complete all starred information in the form, beginning with the Get Started section. Finally, you have to agree to the Terms of Service. Read through the text, and then click "I Agree." So now you have created an email account and your email address is your Google Login Name followed by "@gmail.com." 




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