El correo electrónico, también se conoce como e-mail, que en ingles significa “electronic mail”.

Es un
servicio que se utiliza desde la red de Internet y ofrece poder mandar y recibir mensajes de texto y
archivos adjuntos que pueden ser imágenes, música, archivos de vídeo o documentos, etc. entre
usuarios que se pueden encontrar en cualquier parte del mundo.

Email is also known as e-mail, which in English means "electronic mail". It is a service that is used from
the Internet and offers to be able to send and receive text messages and attachments that can be
images, music, video files or documents, etc. among users that can be found anywhere in the world.

Partes del correo electrónico

Encabezado

Es un conjunto de líneas en las que aparece la información del mensaje. En esta parte, podemos leer las
direcciones de los correos tanto del remitente como del destinatario, y la fecha y hora en que los
servidores que funcionan de intermediarios enviaros los mensajes. Aunque es importante saber que
estos datos no ofrecen garantías de ser ciertos en su totalidad. Se encuentra en la parte de arriba de la
ventana del correo.

Parts of the email

header

This is a set of lines on which the message information appears. In this part, we can read the addresses
of both the sender and recipient emails, and the date and time when the servers that work from brokers
send you the messages. Although it is important to know that this data does not offer guarantees to be
true in its entirety. It is located at the top of the mail window.

Dentro del encabezado podemos encontrar diferentes partes:

De: Es la zona donde se encuentra la dirección del correo electrónico de la persona que remite el
mensaje, es decir, de quién es el mensaje, quien lo ha escrito.

Para: el espacio donde aparece el e-mail de persona a quien va dirigido el mensaje, también
denominado destinatario.

Fecha: el lugar del correo electrónico donde se lee el momento en que se hizo en envío del mensaje.
Aparecen la hora y la fecha.

Within the header we can find different parts:

From: This is the area where the email address of the person sending the message is located, that is,
whose message it is, who typed it.

To: The space where the person to whom the message is addressed appears, also called the recipient.

Date: The place in the email where the time it was sent is read. The time and date appear.

Received: A section that does not come out in one hundred percent of the terminals and which shows
various information regarding the intermediary servers and the dates on which the message was
processed.

Reply to: A place where an address appears, that is, an email to which you want to send a response.

Subject: This is a space where the message editor is allowed to place a topic or title that gives the
message its name, or explains its reason briefly. It is an indication that allows you to meet the person
who receives the mail with a brief glance that you will try, even without the need to open the mail.

message

It is a space within the structure of the email that allows you to write the content you want to send and
make the corresponding specifications. It is the largest part of the e-mail and does not have a character
limit.
In this area, the text can be modified similarly to other graphic programs like Word, but somewhat
simpler. This means that letters can be shaded, it is possible to change the style of the spelling, they can
be structured by bullets, etc.

Attach button

A symbol through which other types of text, video, sound, images, etc. documents can be integrated into
the mail. Depending on the provider or server of the e-mail, the capacity that can be sent in each mail
may vary.

Send button

Symbol that serves to be able to send the message by clicking it.

Reply button

By which you can quickly reply to a received email without having to type again the name of the user to
which it is intended, as it appears directly.

Email client

This is the name given to the program or application that must be used to read and use email. He is in
charge of mediating with the IATA mail server, collecting the messages that have reached a mailbox and
organizing them to display them in a structured way, offering a comfort and clarity to the user.