email

Use to refer generically to an electronic mail program, to refer collectively to email messages, or to refer to individual email messages. If necessary to distinguish these meanings, use email message or message to refer to an individual piece of email. Make sure it's clear that you're not referring to instant messaging. After you have established the context of electronic mail, it's OK to use mail instead of email.

It's OK to use email as a verb.

Global tip In some languages, the translation of email is different for noun and verb forms. If you use email as a noun, provide enough context that localizers can identify its role in the sentence. For example, write send an email, which positions email after a verb and an article, where a noun is expected. In contrast, Email used by itself as a heading could be a noun or a verb.

Use Email at the beginning of a sentence or heading. Never hyphenate email or capitalize the m.

Examples
You have two new emails.
Scroll through email to find the message you want to read.
You have new mail.
Email us your comments.

See also message