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A person that doesn't responds to email within a reasonable amount of time.
Email a question to a person. If that person doesn't respond within a reasonable amount of time then that person can be considered an email mute.
When one person sends an email to another person, but they don't know the answer so they forward on to someone else they think is the right person to deal with the problem, that person in turn also doesn't know and once again forwards the email on to another person. This chain keeps on going until someone with the knowledge and expertise gets the forwarded email and eventually answers the question or sorts out the problem. All other people in the email chain are simply part of the relay of getting the baton (the email) to the last person who can cross over the finish line
The CEO Pierre sent an email to Antoine asking him for some figures for his work. Antoine doesn't have this information but thinks Gisele in Performance team might know and forwards this email on to her. Gisele also doesn't know but forwards the email onto Elena in Reporting team. Elena also doesn't know but forwards it on to Gary in Data Admin. Gary does in fact have a list of the figures Steve is requesting and so answers Pierre with the information required and thus finishing the email relay
(n.) Usually elaborately designed emails with webpage-like functionality, written with HTML (the language of the World Wide Web) rather than standard plaintext or basic formatted text, frequently used in corporate newsletters for a 'professional' appearance. Because email clients (especially Gmail) completely ignore W3C standards, these emails require a horrific mutilation of HTML and CSS, imposing coding atrocities such as nested <table> elements, an extremely limited number of supported image formats, inline CSS, discarded doctypes, character encoding declarations, and even the <head> element, deprecated HTML attributes for formatting, and complex workarounds for basic styling such as background images. Not only does the horrible markup appear like it is from 1996, it is rendered differently in different clients, making an email in Yahoo Mail look different from an email in Hotmail. Good HTML email is almost impossible for all but the best of webpage designers, and prevents use by disabled people who rely on screen reader software. Although HTML emails can look amazing if designed carefully, the current HTML email rendering is the most terrifying tragedy to ever disgrace the World Wide Web since Internet Explorer 6 (the anti-Christ of web browsers).
Also spelled as HTML e-mail.
(cf. HTML, e-mail)
normal person: Damn, this HTML email has some chill graphics, I wish I could make my emails look like this. I love HTML emails!
webpage coder: Dafuq? Composing an HTML email is impossible! None of the CSS positioning works, and I can't even add a background image! I hate creating HTML emails! Good thing I'm getting paid mad skrilla to design this...
coder from 1996 (poor bastard): Whatevs, this is just like coding a normal HTML webpage from 1996 in MS-DOS edlin...
The process by which an email, which you are copied on, has replicated each of its replies, separated the thread into several identical threads, each containing in its own new information from the others copied, without you knowing what the fuck is going on anymore
Hey I was looking into that Baggage that got lost and I found that it wasn't in our storage facility.
Yeah, everyone already knew that because Someone else found it found it like an hour ago, I guess you weren't on that thread...
I think urban dictionary should have a definition about "email mitosis" to describe that phenomenon.
The ultimate damage control
Implies something just done was so heinously illegal and immoral that who did it should just delete their emails before they are hanged for treason and shamed by history.
When asked by her most trusted assistant how she could assist covering up their role in the death of Americans at Benghazi and the systematic destruction of Libya and Europe Hillary Clinton calmly told her, "Delete the Emails xD"
Spitting tobacco on someone’s computer
I didn’t like the way the rental agent talked to me so when he stepped away, I sent an Alabama email over the counter.
When you receive an email you know is going to be so bad, you don't want to look but have to.
Monica: That guy is pissing me off. I know he's going to have sent a stupid email back, I and don't want to read it!
Phoebe: That sucks! But you better get back and read that roadkill email, so you can get back to him.