Summary: Email Basics part 1 Email Basics and the world you feel left out of. No worries, it is easy to learn and use. Learn what it is and how to use it. This will be another three part tutorial series. Part 1 will cover what is email, providers, features. Part 2 will cover Calendars, Contacts and settings. Part 3 will cover email safety, manage, plus some tricks and tips. These will be covering the most popular free online email <a href="https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">GMAIL</a>. A later series will cover other free online webmails, plus stand alone email programs for both Windows and Android, plus encryption. Whether you are new to email communication or not, this might be helpful to you are someone you know. First we need to learn what an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">email address</a> is. Snail Mail(US Postal Service) vs Email, Delivery, Time, Contents and Costs. Tools, Access, Management, Private, Multi-person and Webmail access from anywhere and anytime. Email Address is like your home or postal address to receive communications and packages. With email you can receive or send text or file attachments. The email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered. This is a universal format for the Internet. The first part of and address is the local or user name followed by the (@)at symbol and domain or suffix like .com, .org, .edu, .gov or others to make up an email address. Similar to my email address of <a href="mailto:TheElderDivide@elderdivide.info" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TheElderDivide@ElderDivide.info</a> for my podcasts. If you separate the local name with a (-)dash or (_)underline, you will have to use this in your email address for most programs. Separation by a (.)period is in the local part is ignored in Gmail. Example is basic.email@gmail.com vs basicemail@gmail.com, you see the period is necessary in the domain but not the local part for Gmail only. If you setup an account with someone else and this period is in the address you will have to use it. Also the local part is not case sensitive but the domain is. So you could enter TheElderDivide@elderdivide.info vs theelderdivide@elderdivide.info with the first or local part with capitals or not, both getting delivered to same email box. Delivery of email is done electronically over the Internet vs an envelope or box for mail. Email delivery is done by your <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailbox_provider" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Email Service Provider</a>, in this case Google Gmail. Also remember NOT to misspell an email address as it could be delivered to that wrong address or returned as undeliverable. Time is takes for email to reach its destination is anywhere from instantly to a few minutes. Mail or packages on the other hand may take two to ten days. As for receiving email it depends on when you login or check you email or if standalone email program how often you have is look for and retrieve them. Contents can be just the message for email or attachment files like documents, files, videos, images and more. Mail is just the letter inside the envelope or contents of a package. Cost of most email is free but you can have as part of your own Internet Domain or Email Service Provider. Mail it is the price of stamps or postage and or shipping costs. Some Productivity tools that come with Email are Contact Lists or email addresses and Calendars or more. Most accounts for things like Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus require you to have an email address. Management is the filing, labeling, finding, prioritizing, grouping or filtering. You can control most <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SPAM Email</a>. Webmail like Gmail is accessed through your Web Browser so it does not care what operating system or browser you use to access it or what type of computer,
