# open email inbox
Electronic mail, generally known as email or e-mail, is a way of exchanging messages over the Internet or other computer electronic networks. In the beginning, email was carried directly by one user’s device to some other user’s computer; it was achieved only if both computers were online to the internet at same time. But a lot have changed now.
We can send emails that contain information, data and lots of more things even if the recipient is offline.
Steps to open email inbox
Email provides a platform to exchange information between lots of people around the globe. You can send and receive emails (in the open email inbox tab) by using a lot of online networks like yahoo, Gmail hotmail etc. Make an account on either of these platforms, login to your account. There you will see a mailbox tab.
Now perform the following steps in order to open email inbox
1 Click the mailbox tab to see you sent and received mails.
2 Then click on the inbox and you can view you emails that you have received.
3 Once you have opened emails inbox, you will see all the mails in this folder. An email message comprises of two parts, the message header, and the message body, which is the email’s content.