Email is short for "electronic mail". Email is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.

Email is short for "electronic mail". Email is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.

Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to a mail server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.