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What are the best free email providers?

Over 350 billion emails are sent every day—most of them through free email services. Today’s free email providers offer more storage, stronger security, and sleek, user-friendly in­ter­faces. Looking to create a free email address? Discover 8 of the best free email providers and…

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E-mail

IONOS E-mail Guide: every­thing need to know about e-mails

Most people couldn’t imagine a life without e-mails. Whether you use them to com­mu­ni­cate for business or personal reasons, e-mails have prac­ti­cal­ly replaced tra­di­tion­al letters. Over 200 billion e-mails are sent around the world each day and despite the rise in social media and instant messaging, they show no sign of slowing down. Our E-mail Guide forms part of the IONOS Digital Guide and is dedicated to the basic framework of the e-mail–from the technical security re­quire­ments to marketing strate­gies you should use when sending business e-mails. The contents of this E-mail Guide cater for both beginners as well as more ex­pe­ri­enced computer users.

The E-mail Guide’s target audience

The numerous e-mail tips in the guide are aimed at a wide read­er­ship, from hobbyists and novices to IT and e-mail marketing pro­fes­sion­als. Owners of small and medium-sized companies can also benefit from articles that provide in­for­ma­tion on how to create business e-mails and build suc­cess­ful e-mail marketing campaigns. The e-mail guide takes into con­sid­er­a­tion that readers have different levels of IT knowledge; as well as in­tro­duc­to­ry articles on FAQs (e.g. ‘How is an e-mail sent?’ or ‘What should an e-mail header contain?’) there are also more detailed and specific articles such as ‘E-mail en­cryp­tion with PGP’ or ‘Creating in­di­vid­ual newslet­ter templates’.

The E-mail Guide’s structure and topics

In IONOS’s Digital Guide, the E-mail Guide offers three different sub­cat­e­gories. Under ‘E-mail marketing’ you can read about marketing trends as well as tips on direct marketing via e-mail. The ‘E-mail security’ sub­cat­e­go­ry mainly deals with e-mail en­cryp­tion and how to handle spam and phishing e-mails. Lastly, under ‘Technical matters’, you’ll find various articles about structure, operation and storage of e-mails and the cor­re­spond­ing software. In our guide, we provide detailed in­for­ma­tion on every­thing to do with e-mails, presented to you in a clear and un­der­stand­able way.