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The
Importance of E-mail for your small business
The two most important facets about email are that it is extremely
fast and inexpensive. For small businesses this can cut costs dramatically
in comparison to standard letters. Just like many years ago faxes drove
down the cost of business communication, so does email today. Emails
can contain pictures, documents, programs and many other attachments.
As long as the attachment is on your computer. For a business to send
an email is basically cost free, as the bandwidth used is minimal and
most businesses have flat fee internet connections anyway.
To send or receive email your
business needs to have a domain name and on this domain at least one
mail user account. If you have an internet connection through an ISP
you will already have the possibility for an email account. There are
also free web-based email services available via the internet, such
as Yahoo or Lycos. As a professional business however you should stay
away from using a free web-based email service or the email accounts
from your ISP. You could easily be seen as old-fashioned or even technology
shy if you don't have your own domain for your business.
About E-Mail Services
Because today's e-mail is so much more critical to business, Infuse
Technologies specializes in all aspects of installing, configuring and
troubleshooting your companies e-mail systems. There are many e-mail
related issues that Infuse can perform for your business:
- Setting up mail server software
- Broadcast mail programs
- Configure e-mail
- ISP connections
- E-mail users and alias names
- E-mail forwarding
- MX mail record changes
- Web site and business integration
- Wireless e-mail
About E-mail Formats
E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange
of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. A large percentage
of the total traffic over the Internet is e-mail. E-mail can be exchanged
between networks both public and private. E-mail messages are usually
encoded in ASCII text, however, you can also send non-text files, such
as graphic images as attachments or in HTML e-mail.
Broadcast E-mail
A list server (mailing list server) is a program that handles subscription
requests for a mailing list and distributes new messages, newsletters,
or other postings from the list's members to the entire list of subscribers
as they occur or are scheduled. (A list server should not be confused
with a mail server, which handles incoming and outgoing e-mail for Internet
users.) Two commonly-used list servers are listserv and Majordomo. Lyris
is a list server that is free for users maintaining very small mailing
lists and scales up in price for those managing thousands of mailing
list subscribers. There are also software packages available to broadcast
e-mail messages from your company offices.
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ASCII:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a common
text format that is used by many computer systems.
Bcc: blind carbon copy, many email clients
support sending messages with an option that "hides"
the recipients listed on the Bcc: line from recipients on
the To: or Cc: lines.
Binhex: a common method for encoding attachments
to be exchanged with Macintosh computers.
Cc: carbon copy, most email clients support
sending messages with a Cc: option similar to the way paper
memos are distributed
Eudora: a popular email client package
for Macintosh and PC compatible systems.
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol,
a communications protocol supported by email client and
server packages.
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,
a directory service that is becoming an internet standard.
Microsoft Exchange: an email server software
package for Windows Server systems.
Microsoft Outlook: an email client package
and personal information manager for Windows, Macintosh,
and some Unix systems
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions,
an internet standard for encoding attachments (supports
many types of data files).
Netscape Communicator: an email client
package that is available for most popular computer systems
POP: Post Office Protocol, a communications
protocol supported by email client and server packages
Sendmail: an email server software package for most popular
computer systems.
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the
"language" spoken by email server software that
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