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[[Email]] is a method of exchanging digital messages between people using digital devices such as computers, mobile phones and other electronics. Unlike the most [[instant messaging]] tools, on email neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously. The cost of using email in company varies, since, for example, the company might have its own email server.

Empirical studies demonstrated that all team members on a software development team used this tool effectively. Unlike [[instant messaging]], email messages are intended to be more stand-alone and less sensitive to the context of communication, and thus producing email messages requires more time than traditional IM messages.<ref name=":03">{{Cite book|last=Niinimaki|first=T.|date=August 2011|title=Face-to-Face, Email and Instant Messaging in Distributed Agile Software Development Project|url=httphttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6065582/|journal=2011 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshop|pages=78–84|doi=10.1109/icgse-w.2011.15|isbn=978-1-4577-1839-7}}</ref>

Some email providers are [[Gmail]], [[Outlook.com]] and [[ProtonMail]].