ICT using email Flashcards
What are the two different types of email?
Client based
Webmail
Who uses client based email?
Business users and involves email being downloaded to a server to an application.
How can webmail accessed through a web browser?
Through any computer with an Internet connection.
What do you need to set up a client based email?
A computer
An Internet connection
An account with an ISP (Internet Service Provider)
Your Internet service provider will give you what?
An email account
A password
A mailbox eg yourname@hostname.co.uk
How long is broadband on for?
It is always on.
Emails are delivered extremely fast when compared to what?
Traditional post.
Emails can be sent at what time a day?
24 hours a day 365 days a year.
What is phishing?
Sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be a company trying to get money.
What button followed by send is used to send a copy of a resided email to someone else?
Forward.
What is the most common way people’s computers get infected by a virus?
Download email attachments.
Which of the following statements are true?
Computer viruses always destroy your work.
What dose email stand for?
Electronic mail
