Long Beach, California - Electronic mail, most commonly abbreviated email, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail server computer systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Originally, e-mail was always transmitted directly from one user's device to another's, but because that required both computers to be online at the same time, this is rarely the case nowadays.

A Long Beach, California Charter electronic mail message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.  Originally a text-only communications medium, email was extended to carry multi-media content attachments, which were standardized in with RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

The foundation for today's Long Beach, California Internet e-mail service was created in the early ARPANET and standards for encoding of messages were proposed as early as 1973. An e-mail sent in the early 1970s looked very similar to one sent on the Internet today. Conversion from the ARPANET to the Internet in the early 1980s produced the core of the current service.

California Network-based e-mail was initially exchanged on the ARPANET in extensions to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but is today carried by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet standard 10 (RFC 821) in 1982. In the process of transporting e-mail messages between systems, SMTP communicates delivery parameters using a message envelope separately from the message (header and body) itself.

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The original email systems allowed communication only between users who logged into the one host or "mainframe", but this could be hundreds or thousands of users within a company or university. By 1966 (or earlier, it is possible that the SAGE system had something similar some time before), such systems allowed email between different companies as long as they ran compatible operating systems, but not to other dissimilar systems.

Examples include BITNET, IBM PROFS, Digital Equipment Corporation ALL-IN-1 and the original Unix mail.

LAN-based mail systems
From the early 1980s networked personal computers on LANs became increasingly important. Server based systems similar to the earlier mainframe systems developed, and again initially allowed communication only between users logged into the same server infrastructure, but these also could generally be linked between different companies as long as they ran the same email system and (proprietary) protocol.

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Examples include cc:Mail, WordPerfect Office, Microsoft Mail, Banyan VINES and Lotus Notes - with various vendors supplying gateway software to link these incompatible systems.

How do I read my Charter.net email?

Once logged in, you will be on the Mail tab, where you can Compose new mail messages and check for incoming e-mail. The mail tab is the equivalent of the old “Inbox”, with some new features added for better usability.

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How do I delete e-mail from my Long Beach Charter.net account?

To delete a message or messages from the Inbox, check the box next to the message(s) and click the Delete button (this will send the e-mail to the Trash folder).

How do I compose a message in my Charter email account?

To write an e-mail, click Compose at the top of the screen on the Mail tab. When finished composing the e-mail, click the Send button at the top or the bottom of the page.

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