Electronic Mail Address

An Internet electronic mail, or e-mail, address is used to identify a person (or persons) and a computer for purposes of exchanging electronic mail messages.

An example Internet e-mail address is: [email protected]

Internet e-mail addresses are read from left to right:

• "janedoe" is the name of the person receiving or sending the message; this is referred to as the username.
• "xyz" is part of the domain name of the organization.
• "edu" is also part of the domain name and indicates that "xyz" is an educational institution.