Communicating by Email

To be honest I am not a big user of email, preferring to text as it is more reliable for my friends and I as far as getting a quick answer etc. I do utilize email for sending photos and I really like the way forms etc can be sent to you instantly for applications and such. I really don't send or receive enough emails to worry about having everything organized but have tried out alot of the suggested options and quite like having a few folders set up to separate official and friend/family emails, so have learnt something useful there.
We were asked to find what information about a users email, the origin of the message, the path it took, could be found in an email message.


The information below can be found for each email you receive. This is the info for a message sent to me from curtin uni for this unit. As you can see it contains the the info of where the message came from its destination (my email provider) what filters etc it went to, and the date and time, subject etc. Useful if you want to be sure exactly where a message came from before opening any attachments.


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