Chapter 5

Messages of the Electronic Kind

In This Chapter

arrow Configuring e-mail on the Nexus 7

arrow Receiving e-mail

arrow Reading, replying to, and forwarding e-mail

arrow Composing a new message

arrow Dealing with e-mail attachments

arrow Changing your e-mail signature

The first time an electronic message was sent, it was referred to as mail. That’s it. Short. Simple. To the point. Eventually, the term email was adopted, where the e stood for electronic. And that’s where the Legion of Editors stepped in. Now you see it written as E-mail (which is what my publisher, Wiley, is currently dictating), though email is gaining in popularity. There’s also e-mail (little e), eMail and even EMail. So what is it?

E-mail is this chapter’s topic. It’s the process of sending a message to someone else, another denizen of the Internet. Using your Nexus 7, you can receive, compose, send, forward, and otherwise review and regard ...

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