Electronic Mail
The Concepts of an Electronic Mail
An E-mail stands for an electronic mail.
It refers to the model of transferring information in the form similar to traditional means like letters, pictures,
documents and so on. In E-mail these information is now transferred electronically, hence E-mail.
E-mail account is a service that allows users to provide temporary or permanent email addresses that help you to store,
send and receive electronic messages. Email (Electronic mail) is free and it allows you to send letters, pictures,
documents, music and videos to people all over the world almost instantly.
E-mail Address
The E-mail address is a name used to identify and reach someone in E-mails.
The format of an email address is user@domain. Example info@veta.go.tz, syley23@yahoo.com, offschool@gmail.com.
To receive emails, you will need an Email account and an Email Address.
Also, if you want to send emails to other people, you will need to obtain their email addresses.
Procedures involved in opening up an E-mail There are many companies you can use to create an email account.
In order for you to get a free email account use one of the following free email provider: Yahoo! Mail
USES OF EMAIL
- Send and receive email messages easily and quickly wherever you are with just an Internet connection.
- Sign, use and synchronize with all Google services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play, YouTube, Google Plus, Google Driver …
- Use a Gmail account to sign up for online accounts like Facebook, Twitter, …
- Send documents and attachments easily. For files with large capacities, Google will support you to Upload to Google Drive and share.
- Download apps, games and books from Google Playbile phone. However, the verification though telephone number will help to secure your account better (You can use a phone number for multiple Gmail accounts).
- Prepare a telephone number to receive SMS containing a verification code.
- Google allows one person to create multiple Gmail accounts but if you tend to create multiple accounts for whatever purposes, they can be all deleted.
Steps you can use to create Gmail email account:
Step 1: First, you visit Gmail.com, then choose Create Account or click on this button to signup Gmail:
create gmail account.
Step 2: In the Gmail sign up Form, you enter all the information that are required by Gmail. Email-registration-account-guide to fill in information:
Name: Enter your first and last name. You can change or update it later.
Select your user name: Enter the Gmail nickname you want to set up in form of yourname@gmail.com. Gmail name may include letters, numbers and dots and must be between 6 and 30 characters. If it notifies that user name has already been in use. Try another username.
Password & Confirm your password: Gmail passwords are required to be at least 8 characters. You should use a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and characters to have the safest password. You should not use easily guessed password like 12345678, your name, the name of a relative or birth date, phone number ...
Birthday: Enter your date of birth. Under the provisions of Google, if by the time you create your Gmail, you have not been 13 years old, then you couldn’t create your Gmail account . So please pay attention to this section.
Gender: Choose your gender (Male, female or other).
Mobile: Enter your phone number. This option is not required, but you should enter your phone number. Because if you forget your password, you can easily restore password or change it via this phone number.
Your current email address: If you have already had another account then please enter your email here. Linking your old email account and the Gmail account which is about to be create will help you easily retrieve your password when you forget or lost it.
Skip this verification step: If you tick this box, you don’t need to enter captcha code below. However in the next step you will need to enter a verification code sent to your phone number to complete the registration.
Enter the captcha: Enter the number you see in the picture above this bracket. Click the circle arrow button beside to switch to other image, or click the speaker icon below to listen to the verification code instead.
Check the box I agree to the Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
After you complete the information requested by Gmail, you click Next. -
Step 3: Set your personal profile. You can set it immediately or put it aside. Press Next -
Step 4: Click Continue to go to Gmail.com. You will be redirect to your Gmail inbox immediately. Congratulate! You’ve successfully create Gmail account. From now on, you can login Gmail and use Gmail to send and receive emails.
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After completing the form properly, follow other few steps until you complete the exercise.
What you need to note here are two things (do not forget):
The Username is the name you choose to identify yourself.
The Password is secret word you use to enter to your email account so do expose
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