Email Service: A Detailed Definition

Ways of communication are developing at high speed, and you may be questioning yourself: what is an email service? In this article, you will find the definition of electronic mail service and learn what features they should offer.

What does “electronic mail service” mean?

Email as a service is a method of exchanging digital messages between people using digital devices such as computers and mobile phones, making it possible to transfer data of any content. Using email service, you can store certain information and have constant access to it even without the Internet connection. But you need to be connected to the Internet to send something.

In the early stages of email existence, its services could be used only by employees of organizations which had their own email servers. Over time, free mail servers that can be accessed through a web-based browser interface have emerged. This has made email accessible to almost everyone. Gmail and Outlook are among the most famous and popular mail systems.

We want to remind you that Stripo allows you to export HTML emails to Outlook and Gmail. And that Gmail allows sending bulk messages. 

To use email, you must have an email account with one of the email services. An email account is a memory location on a mail server. It is given a unique address, which consists of two parts separated by a special symbol: username and mail server name. This address is called the email address. Email addresses cannot contain spaces; uppercase and lowercase emails in it do not differ.

Features of email services:

• one email can be sent to many recipients;

• you can attach files to the email, but not too large;

• the service doesn’t provide any information on whether the user is online or not;

• reliability of delivery and storage of emails is very high.

The email will not be delivered if the recipient’s address is specified incorrectly. 

The modern email package has a well-organized user interface that does not require much time and effort to learn, and usually provides the following additional features:

• identification of the mailbox owner;

• automatic signature attachment;

• address books where you can add your contacts to make mailing easier or not to lose any important emails;

• spell and grammar checkers;

• ability to create mailboxes for various purposes;

• encryption or decryption of messages;

• ability to work in autonomous (offline) mode. To be able to send and receive emails, you still need Internet;

• message filtering;

• spam filtering;

• automatic sending a response about the temporary absence of the recipient;

• automatic forwarding of the email to another email address.

You may find ​​important information about your email service in the support documentation on the website of a particular email client.

List of email services

1. AOL.

2. Gmail.

3. Outlook.

4. Mail.ru

5. Gmail

6. Zoho Mail

7. iCloud Mail.

8. Yahoo! Mail.

9. GMX.

10. Hey 

If you are looking for Email service providers that let you collect and store data on your users for better promo emails, please refer to our “Best Email Service Providers” blog post. Stripo is integrated with all of them.