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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  E-mail \E-mail\, email \email\, e-mail \e-mail\([=e]"m[^a]l`),
     n.
     electronic mail; a digitally encoded message sent from one
     computer to another through an electronic communications
     medium, especially by means of a computer network.
  
     Syn: electronic mail.
          [PJC] email
          E-mail

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  E-mail \E-mail\, email \email\, e-mail \e-mail\v. t. [imp. & p.
     p. E-mailed; p. pr. & vb. n. E-mailing.]
     to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the
     article to the editor; she emailed me her report.
  
     Syn: mail electronically.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:

  email
   /ee'mayl/
  
     (also written `e-mail' and `E-mail')
  
     1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks
     and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail,
     paper-net, voice-net. See network address.
  
     2. vt. To send electronic mail.
  
     Oddly enough, the word emailed is actually listed in the OED; it
     means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or
     open work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived
     from French emaille (enameled) and related to Old French emmailleure
     (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French,
     `email' is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a
     furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email
     (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them
     in a furnace).
  
     There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet
     traffic up to 1995, `email' predominates, `e-mail' runs a
     not-too-distant second, and `E-mail' and `Email' are a distant third
     and fourth.