When I press send on my email programme, how does the email message know where to go and how to get there?\n\nI know how a web page works:\nits sits on a web server and when I navigate to that page its HTML file gets sent to my computer\n\nBUT, I would like to know how emails work.\n\nThanks
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Check out this explanation\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/deckert/iblog/C11989312/E117193629/
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TRUE \nTHE e-mail you send can allow the recepient to know from the computer the mail was send , it works this way , it show you exact ip addresses of how it pass till it got to your computer, and with the IP address you can easily trace which county, then narrow down to which who provide the service , then the owner of the computer, actually there are so many software that can hide you also that you can never be trace , but i just don't need to mention so don't do bad , and don't cheat onlnie so you will not be found wanted \nif u send a mail to me i can track the INTERNET PROVIDER  that give you link , but there are other people that there job is to trace you down home, such as CIA ,FBI and th rest ,
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The contacts in  your email account will work from email address for most programs they are not linked to your email address they are linked to the program.\n\nAs I don't know what program you use I will keep this generic.\n\nFrom your new email account send an email to everyone at once but blind copy them thats the bc catagory so you protect their privacy and in the RE line simply put this is **** my email addy has been changed to this\n\nThat will show up in their in box so they will know its safe to open and not from a stranger.\n\nThen you can put what you want in the body of the email.  \n\nSometimes the simplest answer is the best answer.....
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If you're using Outlook or something like that, you can set up a rule on the computer so that any emails coming from xxxx@xxxxx.com get forwarded to your email address.  Just hope that she doesn't find that you made the rule.  If she's using webmail to get her mail, it depends on how fancy the provider is.  Some offer rule creation, some don't.
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You can't send a SMS to an email address. Even if you could do that, since you are already on a computer and have the email address, why don't you send an email? \n\nYou can send SMSes to mobile phones from a computer, though. Most of them aren't free, or require you to have a subscription with a mobile operator. Go to http://mobile.yahoo.com, there are instructions on how to do it.
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they send emails using the "BCC" function. that's Blind Carbon Copy to us. some email programs have it some don't.
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Most of it is pretty clear. One thing that might not be obvious are the "Received:" lines. As an e-mail message is passed from one server to another, the server adds a "Received:" line to the top of the e-mail message.\n\nWhat that means is that you can backtrack an e-mail message by the received lines. The top line is the information for the server that delivered it to you. The next line is a server that passed it along. The bottom Received line will be the information about the system that sent the e-mail to you.\n\nHowever, spammers and other scumsucking lowlifes can actually add an extra couple of Received lines to the top of an e-mail message trying to obfuscate where the message originally came from. You can eliminate some of them by understanding specifics of an IP address. For example, they'll use something like: 354.210.0.223 as an ip address but since each octet is a range from 0 to 254, you can see the first number cannot be valid so you can delete that line.\n\nPlus, since each server just adds a "Received:" line and nothing else, any received lines that fall after a non-received line:\n\nReceived:\nReceived:\nFrom \nReceived:\nFrom\n\nThat third received line is likely bogus.\n\nAnyway, other lines should be obvious as I said. Date, time, subject, from, lines, etc. Other lines might not be as clear and may be specific to an e-mail package or spam fighting package. Read the line and what the data is. It might become clear if you think about it.
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It could be something with your internet connect. SMTP is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It sends the mail by contacting the other server to which you want your mail sent... If it cannot reach another, your internet connecting might not be working correctly...
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Yes u can send Programs in Email but then again most emails dont support executable files to be attached. Or they have a file size limit. Word & Warcrafts will be way too big to attach in emails, u can send smaller programs.\n\n& if ur email doesnt support executable files to be attached u can compress them in zip/rar format. Or u can just change the size extension to fool the system & tell the recieptiant to change the extension back.
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There are two methods:-\n1 - By Mail client :\nPut this in HTML\n<A HREF="mailto:name@server.com?SUBJECT=This is the subject&BODY=This is the body">Send e-mail</A>\nThis code will open Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express to send the e-mail\n2 - By Server-Side :\nBy ASP programming language\nlook at http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp
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The e-mail are being send through servers. There are programs that can trace back the e-mail sender, meaning that they can find the computers ip adress. There are more advanced programs that can even say the exact location (but cost a lot).\nBut this can't be done in general, because not all the e-mails come from a certain ip adress (i'm refering to those computers which connect to the internet by receiving a different ip automatically, though it's the same computer).
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Maybe I misunderstood the question - Between 1 yahoo e-mail and another yahoo e-mail ? Instantaneous.\n\nIf you're sending it to a different  e-mail provider, it depends.
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I always send both on the body of the email and in an attachment. in the event the computer can not pull up the attachment. Good luck.
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Here is the process when using a mail client such as Outlook Express.\n\nWhen you send a message it is transferred from your mail client (e.g. Outlook Express) to the server using SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.  SMTP is designed for sending messages.\n\nYou can get a feel for how this works by sending mail using the telnet procotol.  Check out the first link.  It's a good testing method for system administrators.\n\nNow that the server has the message, it must deliver it to the recipient's mail server.  Obviously it needs the address.  It determines this using the domain name portion of the email address.  For example for user@yahoo.com the domain is yahoo.com.\n\nComputers don't really "talk" using the friendly names that we do like yahoo.com.  Each computer has a number called an IP address.  That's where DNS comes in.  It translates friendly names to IP addresses.  What's more, there is a special DNS record for mail servers called an MX record.  So in short, the next step is to get the IP address of the recipient's mail server by querying DNS for the domain's MX record.\n\nYou can see this in action.  Open a command prompt and enter "nslookup -querytype=mx yahoo.com" and you'll see a list of IP addresses for Yahoo's mail servers.\n\nOnce the server has the IP address it again uses SMTP to send the message to the recipient's mail server.\n\nFinally the recipient uses POP or Post Office Protocol to retrieve the message.  POP simply downloads emails.\n\nDone!
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It's hard to know where to start on this one. this is a broad and complex topic that depends on knowledge of things like the OSI model, TCP/IP model, switching, routing, routing protocols, among others. \n\nI'll try to tackle this from a high level:\n\nThe information being transmitted includes the actual file/message, plus "headers." Headers are like instructions telling the network who is sending the file and where it needs to go. There are different types of headers for different layers of the network. \n\nThe information starts at the source computer, then goes from device to device until it finally reaches the destination computer. Along the way switches are using the Layer 2 headers to determine where to send the file, and routers are using Layer 3 headers to determine where to send the file. Once the destination computer receives the file, it strips away the headers and the computer uses the appropriate application to open the file for the intended recipient.\n\nMetaphorically speaking, it's like a letter and the post office. Someone writes a letter. They put the letter in an envelope, then put their return address on it. Then they put the destination address on it. The post office takes the letter, and they stamp all sorts of weird bar codes and lines all over the envelope, and these things tell the post office where to send the letter. Finally a postal worker at the tail end takes the letter around on his route and puts it in the right mailbox. The recipient opens the envelope and reads the letter. Neither sender nor recipient cares about the envelope or the route used, all they care about is whether the intended recipient got the letter intact.
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This is just your browser doing what it is supposed to do. When you leave an https// website (a secure site) then you will get a warning unless you set the ignore feature for this in your browser.\n\nYou will also get a similar message if you use a form where someone has written it to just send a straight email when you fill in a form on a website. This shouldnt happen these days, developers should know better.\n\nBasically because you see that message it doesnt mean someone can come and read emails you received "at" the secure site or any emails on your computer ;O)
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When you download files it could send to a specific place. If I have no idea where a file went, such as .swf (a flash file) I use the search function to bring everything up with a swf extenstion.  I then move it to "my documents."