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Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, e-post or originally eMail, is a store-and-forward method of writing, sending, receiving and saving messages over electronic communication systems. The term "e-mail" (as a noun or verb) applies to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, to network systems based on other protocols and to various mainframe, minicomputer, or internet by a particular systems vendor, or on the same protocols used on public networks. The spellings e-mail and email are both common. Several prominent journalistic and technical style guides recommend e-mail,[1][2][3][4] and the spelling email is also recognized in many dictionaries.[5][6][7][8][9] In the original RFC neither spelling is used; the service is referred to as mail, and a single piece of electronic mail is called a message.[10][11][12] Newer RFCs[13] and IETF working groups[14] also use email. ARPAnet/DARPAnet users and early developers from Unix, CMS, AppleLink, eWorld, AOL, GEnie, and HotMail used eMail with the letter M capitalized. The authors of some of the original RFCs used eMail when giving their own addresses.[11][12] E-mail predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating the Internet.
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