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<seo title="What is email and how it works" metakeywords="email account,how to send email,send email,what is a email,free e-mail,mail,e-mail address,mail address,send mail" metadescription="What is email and how it works" /><div align=justify>'''What is email (email message)? '''

This is the same letter people used to write with a pen on paper, but you're using the keyboard to type a message in an email program on your computer.

'''How to send email?'''

When the email message is finished and the recipient's email address is typed in the respective field, you don't put a stamp on it (like on a paper letter) and post it but press the '''Send button''' in the email program. This makes your mail go to the recipient. The recipient, in his turn, just opens the email program on his computer and is able to read the message you have sent.

Now we'll explain the whole process in more details:

'''1'''. Once you compose an email on your computer, using an email client like Outlook, you address it to some e-mail address (e.g. ''something@somedomain.com'') and press '''Send'''.

'''2'''. Your email program sends mail to the SMTP server where your account is.

'''3'''. The SMTP server breaks the address something@somedomain.com into two parts: something (the account name) and somedomain.com (the domain). The SMTP server then contacts a DNS (domain name service) server, and asks for the IP address where somedomain.com is located.

'''4'''. The DNS server sends the address back to the SMTP server.

'''5'''. The SMTP server then sends the email message to the SMTP server where theirdomain.com is located.

'''6'''. The second SMTP server delivers the email message to the needed account on the POP3 or IMAP server.

'''7'''. The recipient logs on to his computer and opens his email client. The email client requests the POP3 or IMAP server to send all email from their account to their computer.

'''8'''. If you are sending email to someone whose account resides on the same set of mail servers, the SMTP server will simply direct the mail to the local POP3 or IMAP server, where it will be delivered to the appropriate account.


'''How can you be sure that your email will be sent to the right person?'''

For your mails to address the proper person you just need to know the email address of that person. You may ask: what is email address? 
This is an electronic post office box where you can send mail. It defines the email box to which email messages are delivered. Every emal address is unique and looks like this:
''something@somedomain.com'' (e.g. ''john@myidealhost.com'', pronounced as ''john at myidealhost dot com'')

'''Note: you can send mail only to those mailboxes that already exist.'''

There are domains that provide free e-mail addresses (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.). Alternatively you can use domain-based email accounts. All you need to do is to sign up for reliable [http://myidealhost.com/hosting.shtml web hosting]. Once you sign up you are able to create email accounts for your domain name. Myidealhost allows you to have an [http://myidealhost.com/hosting.shtml unlimited number of mailboxes] under the hosting account. See how to create free e-mail accounts '''[http://myidealhost.com/tutorials/How_to_create_email_account here]'''
After the mailbox is created you can send mail to it in order to check its functioning.</div>
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