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What is Email?

 

	What is email? Email refers to electronic mail, which is a convenient means of sending messages via the internet. Email can also allow you to send files as attachments such as photographs and other files to email messages.
	Note: Most email servers, including ours prohibit sending attachments that are deemed to be 'dangerous' to the recipent's computer, so Windows executable files like .exe, .pif, .com, .reg etc will be automatically stripped from the email by the mail server before it gets delivered to the receiver. If you want to send executable files, then you must first bundle them into a zip file and then attach the zip file to the email.
	From a security standpoint, if you receive an email from an unknown source that has a zip attachment, then you should think twice before opening it because it may contain a malicious executable that will almost certainly try to infect your computer with a trojan or virus. Don't automatically rely on your anti-virus application to report that it contains malicious code - Some AV applications don't or can't inspect the content of a zip file.

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