Understanding the Gmail Screen and Using Email Addresses : Lesson 19 — CompterSeekhoAurJobPao

Lesson 19: Understanding the Gmail Screen and Using Email Addresses

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What you'll learn?

• Two Basic Rules of Using Email
• It is Not Necessary for Email to be Gmail
• Structure of an Email Address (Revision)
• Understanding the Gmail Screen
• Important Parts of the Gmail Screen
• Email List
• Search Bar

In the previous lesson, you learned:

• • What is Email
• • What is Gmail
• • Structure of an email address
• • How to create a Gmail account

And you must have created your Gmail ID as well. Now the next step is to use Gmail and understand its screen.

1. Two Basic Rules of Using Email

Keep two simple things in mind while using email.

Rule 1

If you want to receive an email from someone, they must have your email address.

Example: If someone needs to send you a file, they should know: what your email address is.

⚠ Important: Never give your password to anyone. To send or receive emails, only the email address is required, not the password.

Rule 2

If you want to send an email to someone, you must have their email address.

For example: If you are applying for a job, you should know the company's email address. Only then can you send them an email.

2. It is Not Necessary for Email to be Gmail

Many people think that an email address always ends with @gmail.com. But this is not necessary. Gmail is just an email service. You can understand this like a courier service.

Just as there are courier services:

• • DTDC
• • Blue Dart
• • Speed Post

Similarly, there are email services too.

Example:

• • @gmail.com
• • @yahoo.com
• • @hotmail.com

These are all different email services. Therefore, even if someone's email address is not from Gmail, you can still send them an email.

3. Structure of an Email Address (Revision)

In the previous lesson, you learned that an email address is made up of two parts.

Example: ektagarg123@gmail.com

In this:

• • ektagarg123 → your username
• • gmail.com → your email service

Both together form the: Email Address

4. Understanding the Gmail Screen

When you login to Gmail, you see the main screen of Gmail. This screen is also called the Inbox screen. This is the place where:

• • new emails arrive
• • you read emails
• • you send emails

5. Important Parts of the Gmail Screen

1️⃣ Compose Button

The Compose button is on the left side. It is used:

• • to write a new email
• • to send an email to someone

2️⃣ Inbox

All new emails arrive in the Inbox. As soon as someone sends you an email, it appears in the Inbox.

3️⃣ Sent

The Sent folder contains those emails that you have sent to someone.

4️⃣ Draft

If you are writing an email and it gets saved in the middle, it goes to the Draft folder.

5️⃣ Spam

Unwanted emails come into the Spam folder. Such as:

• • advertisements
• • suspicious emails

6️⃣ Trash

If you delete an email, it goes to the Trash folder.

6. Email List

You see a list in the Inbox. This list contains:

• • sender's name
• • subject of the email
• • a small preview of the message

Click on an email to read it.

7. Search Bar

There is a Search bar at the top of Gmail. With its help, you can easily find old emails.

Example: If you search: job, then job-related emails will be displayed.

Today's Practice

1️⃣ Login to Gmail
2️⃣ View the Inbox screen
3️⃣ Find the Compose button
4️⃣ Open the Sent and Draft folders

Next Lesson

In the next lesson, we will learn:

• • How to send an email (Send Email Step-by-Step)

In this, you will learn: Using Compose, the To field, Subject, writing a Message, attaching a File, and the Send button.

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