electronic mail

English

electronic mail (countable and uncountable, plural electronic mails)

(uncountable, networking) Email (the system).
- 1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1:
  Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.
(countable, dated) An email.
- 2006, Edward Wilding, Information Risk and Security, Gower Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 306:
  Employees are asked to exercise extreme caution when opening electronic mails and attachments sent by unknown or unfamiliar correspondents, or which require the recipient to execute a program, open an attachment or decompress an archive such as a Winzip™ file.

email — see email