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Email address

Index Email address

An email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered. [1]

70 relations: Anti-spam techniques, Application programming interface, ASCII, At sign, Basic Latin (Unicode block), Brahmic scripts, Callback verification, Case sensitivity, Catch-all, Courier Mail Server, Cyrillic script, Data validation, Devanagari, Diacritic, Directory Harvest Attack, Disposable email address, Domain name, Domain Name System, Electronic mailing list, Email, Email alias, Email authentication, Email box, Email client, Email spam, FastMail, Gmail, Government of Rajasthan, Greek alphabet, Heuristic (computer science), Hostname, ICloud, India, International email, Internationalized domain name, Internet, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Message Access Protocol, Internet Standard, IP address, IPv6 address, Japanese writing system, Latin alphabet, List of DNS record types, List of Internet top-level domains, Mail, Message transfer agent, MMDF, MX record, Non-Internet email address, ..., Outlook.com, Phishing, Post Office Protocol, Postfix (software), ProtonMail, Qmail, Regular expression, Runbox, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Statistical model, Top-level domain, Traditional Chinese characters, Unicode, User (computing), UTF-8, UUCP, Webmail, X.400, Yahoo! Mail, .in. Expand index (20 more) »

Anti-spam techniques

Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email).

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Application programming interface

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.

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ASCII

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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At sign

The at sign, @, is normally read aloud as "at"; it is also commonly called the at symbol or commercial at.

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Basic Latin (Unicode block)

The Basic Latin or C0 Controls and Basic Latin Unicode block is the first block of the Unicode standard, and the only block which is encoded in one byte in UTF-8.

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Brahmic scripts

The Brahmic scripts are a family of abugida or alphabet writing systems.

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Callback verification

Callback verification, also known as callout verification or Sender Address Verification, is a technique used by SMTP software in order to validate e-mail addresses.

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Case sensitivity

In computers, upper case and lower case text may be treated as distinct (case sensitivity) or equivalent (case insensitivity).

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Catch-all

In common use, a catchall or catch-all is a general term, or metaphoric dumping group, for a variety of similar words or meanings.

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Courier Mail Server

The Courier mail server is a mail transfer agent (MTA) server that provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, SMAP, webmail, and mailing list services with individual components.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across Eurasia (particularity in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and North Asia).

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Data validation

In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring data have undergone data cleansing to ensure they have data quality, that is, that they are both correct and useful.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी,, a compound of "''deva''" देव and "''nāgarī''" नागरी; Hindi pronunciation), also called Nagari (Nāgarī, नागरी),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group,, page 83 is an abugida (alphasyllabary) used in India and Nepal.

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Diacritic

A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

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Directory Harvest Attack

A directory harvest attack (DHA) is a technique used by spammers in an attempt to find valid/existent e-mail addresses at a domain by using brute force.

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Disposable email address

Disposable email addressing (DEA) refers to an approach where a unique email address is used for every contact or entity.

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Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.

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Electronic mailing list

An electronic mailing list or email list is a special use of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

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Email alias

An email alias is simply a forwarding email address.

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Email authentication

Email authentication, or validation, is a collection of techniques aimed at equipping messages of the email transport system with verifiable information about their origin.

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Email box

An email box (also email mailbox, e-mailbox) is the destination to which electronic mail messages are delivered.

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Email client

In Internet, an email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email.

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Email spam

Email spam, also known as junk email, is a type of electronic spam where unsolicited messages are sent by email.

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FastMail

FastMail is an email service offering paid email accounts for individuals and organisations.

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Gmail

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google.

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Government of Rajasthan

The Government of Rajasthan also known as the State Government of Rajasthan, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Rajasthan and its 33 districts.

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Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.

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Heuristic (computer science)

In computer science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical optimization, a heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for solving a problem more quickly when classic methods are too slow, or for finding an approximate solution when classic methods fail to find any exact solution.

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Hostname

In computer networking, a hostname (archaically nodename) is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication, such as the World Wide Web.

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ICloud

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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International email

International email (IDN email or Intl email) is email that contains international characters (characters which do not exist in the ASCII character set), encoded as UTF-8, in the email header and in supporting mail transfer protocols.

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Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, Hebrew or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures, such as French.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

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Internet Message Access Protocol

In computing, the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an Internet standard protocol used by email clients to retrieve email messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection.

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Internet Standard

In computer network engineering, an Internet Standard is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet.

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IP address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

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IPv6 address

An Internet Protocol Version 6 address (IPv6 address) is a numerical label that is used to identify a network interface of a computer or a network node participating in an IPv6 computer network.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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List of DNS record types

This list of DNS record types is an overview of resource records (RRs) permissible in zone files of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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List of Internet top-level domains

This list of Internet top-level domain (TLD) extensions contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.

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Message transfer agent

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture.

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MMDF

MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent (MTA), a computer program designed to transmit email.

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MX record

A mail exchanger record (MX record) is a type of certified and verified resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a recipient's domain, and a preference value used to prioritize mail delivery if multiple mail servers are available.

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Non-Internet email address

A wide variety of non-Internet email address formats were used in early email systems before the ubiquity of the john.smith@example.com form used by Internet mail systems since the 1980s - and a few are still used in specialised contexts.

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Outlook.com

Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft.

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Phishing

Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

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Post Office Protocol

In computing, the Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a server in an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

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Postfix (software)

Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail.

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ProtonMail

ProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service founded in 2014 at the CERN research facility by Andy Yen, Jason Stockman and Wei Sun.

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Qmail

qmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on Unix.

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Regular expression

A regular expression, regex or regexp (sometimes called a rational expression) is, in theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a sequence of characters that define a search pattern.

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Runbox

Runbox Solutions AS is a company that provides e-mail and web hosting services worldwide.

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission.

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Statistical model

A statistical model is a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of some sample data and similar data from a larger population.

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Top-level domain

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese characters (Pinyin) are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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User (computing)

A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service.

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UTF-8

UTF-8 is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes.

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UUCP

UUCP is an abbreviation of Unix-to-Unix Copy.

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Webmail

Webmail (or web-based email) is any email client implemented as a web application running on a web server.

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X.400

X.400 is a suite of ITU-T Recommendations that define standards for Data Communication Networks for Message Handling Systems (MHS) — more commonly known as email.

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Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail is an e-mail service launched in 1997 through the American parent company Yahoo.

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.in

.in is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address

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