E-mail

Email is short for electronic mail and is used for exchanging digital messages across the internet and other computer network. Most computers will have an email system built into it which contain a text editor used for composing messages, but many allow you to edit your messages using any editor you want. You then send the message to the person  by specifying their address. You can also send the same message to several users at once. This is called broadcasting.



This is an example of a composed message on Outlook Express

Sent messages are stored in electronic mailboxes until the person sees them. To see if you have any mail, you may have to check your electronic mailbox, although many systems alert you when mail is received. After reading your mail, you can store it in a text file, forward it to other users, or delete it.

Gmail

G mail priority inbox finds the important messages and sorts them for you. At the top of the inbox it will say important and bring them to the top of the list, unimportant messages will then go to the bottom this will make it easier for you to use. There is a star option which you can click and it will save the the email to read later. Gmail has this, whereas hotmail does not - making it more efficient in sorting messages and helps avoid imformation overload.

Gmail has filters which can save more important emails for yourself, with hotmail you cannot filter messages. Gmail already has a good spam filter but it can also predict what is really important depending on which emails you read most often and reply to which is more important than just reading it. If it makes a mistake then you can manually say which messages are important and vice versa. over time it will get better and better. This will make you enjoy your email more my making your life easier.

Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail is one of the largest e-mail services in the world with more than 280 million active accounts it was built from the ground up to enable a safer, more productive and more powerful Web mail experience than previous versions. Windows Live Hotmail offers customers flexible access to their e-mail whether via the Web, a mobile phone or a PC. Updating an account from MSN Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail is easy; when customers update their e-mail address, their contacts and saved information go with them automatically. Best of all, it works with other Windows Live services such as Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Contacts and Live Search.