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E-mail is one of the most convenient form of communication used for both official and personal communication. People have started using emails for more than just communication purposes. Many organizations these days use email as a medium for placing business orders, official approvals etc. It is also used as a means of storing important data of the company and research have found that people store more than one half of their crucial business information within the messaging systems. (Research and Markets: Enterprise Email Archiving: Market Problems, Needs and Trends, 2004) People also use it to send company decisions and details of new decision for their sub officers at distant places.

But there are a lot of unexpected problems associated with using the email. One of the biggest problem is theft of important conversation documents via hacking. An example of Hilary Clinton whose email was hacked and many delicate information were stolen which became one of the leading aspect for her to loose in the presidential election to Donald Trump.

The other problem with email is virus infection. PR Newwire reported that a global email virus that took place from December 29-31, 2006 and 19-21 January 2007 was large enough to increase the virus level in the internet by a factor of 20. This was targeted to steal information and hijack personal computers and these type of activity is expected to increase. (Newswire, 2007)

Aside from these major problems miscommunication, ethical issues, lot of spam emails clogging the inbox, mistake in email address can be some of the problems related to email users.

Reference
Newswire, P. (2007, Jan 29). Second Massive Email Virus Attack in a Month Portends Explosive Growth in Fraud, Theft, Spam and Viruses; Storm Worm Drives Volume of Email Viruses on the Internet Upward by a Factor of 20. PR Newswire , p. 1.

Research and Markets: Enterprise Email Archiving: Market Problems, Needs and Trends. (2004, Aug 27). Business Wire , p. 1.