What is Electronic Mail?
An e-mail address identifies a person and the computer for purposes of exchanging electronic mail messages. The basic structure of an e-mail address is:
username@host.subdomain.second-level-domain.first-level-domain
Two examples:
janedoe@sales.nw.widgets.com
johndoe@widgets.com
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