It has been made from a variety of materials ; from rudimentary leather protection, personal armour evolved to Mail and full plated suits of armour.

Mail ( maille, chainmail ) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.

Mail may have been inspired by the much earlier scale armour.

Mail continues to be used in the 21st century as a component of stab-resistant body armour, cut-resistant gloves for butchers and woodworkers, shark-resistant wetsuits for defence against shark bites, and a number of other applications.

Mail armour and equipment of Polish medium cavalryman, from the second half of the 17th century

Mail was commonly also used as horse armour for cataphracts and heavy cavalry as well as armour for the soldiers themselves.

Mail was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be mail.

Mail spread to Korea slightly later where it was imported as the armour of imperial guards and generals.

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

* Mail ( armour )

* Mail ( armour ) ( or " chainmail "), a type of armor made of interlocking chain links

Mail armour spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin with the expansion of the Romans.

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Mail armour of this type was also known as a byrnie or brynja.

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Mallory is an English surname thought to be derived from a French word meaning " beautiful " or alternately a different French word for Mail ( armour ).

Mail armour was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be chainmail.

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Other examples included Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ), Clueless ( 1995 ) and You've Got Mail ( 1998 ) from the United States, and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ), Sliding Doors ( 1998 ) and Notting Hill ( 1999 ) from the United Kingdom.

* Ronald Munson used an epistolary style in " Fan Mail " ( 1994 ), where the entire plot is told using e-mails, letters, transcripts of television shows and telephone conversations, faxes, and interactions with a computer program called ELIZA.

It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

IMAP was previously known as Internet Mail Access Protocol, Interactive Mail Access Protocol ( RFC 1064 ), and Interim Mail Access Protocol.

The interim protocol was quickly replaced by the Interactive Mail Access Protocol ( IMAP2 ), defined in RFC 1064 ( in 1988 ) and later updated by RFC 1176 ( in 1990 ).

* K-9 Mail, a mail client for the Android ( operating system ), also called k9 or k9mail

Spurling claimed that to get revenge, Marmaduke Wetherell committed the hoax, with the help of Chris Spurling ( a sculpture specialist ), his son Ian Marmaduke, who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers ( an insurance agent ), who asked surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to offer the pictures to the Daily Mail.

full support for 64-bit applications ( including graphical applications ), new features in Mail and iChat, and a number of new security features.

Elements of classic screwball comedy often found in more recent films which might otherwise simply be classified as romantic comedies include the " battle of the sexes " ( Down with Love, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ), witty repartee ( Down with Love ), and the contrast between the wealthy and the middle class ( You've Got Mail, Two Weeks Notice ).

It relies on Extensible Markup Language ( XML ) for its message format, and usually relies on other Application Layer protocols, most notably Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ), for message negotiation and transmission.

In Australia, The Advertiser, Herald Sun, The Sun-Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail ( All News Ltd papers ), The West Australian, The Mercury, The Hamilton Spectator, The Portland Observer, The Casterton News and The Melbourne Observer.

** The most important state owned companies are: Republica AFAP ( Pension Fund ), AFE ( Railways ), ANCAP ( Energy ), ANCO ( Mail ), Administracion Nacional de Puertos ( Ports ), ANTEL ( Telecommunications: Telephony, Mobiles ( ANCEL and Data ANTELDATA )), BHU ( Mortgage Bank ), BROU ( Bank ), BSE ( Insurance ), OSE ( Water & Sewage ), UTE ( Electricity ).

WWI pen franked " Soldier Mail " In addition to this type of franking privilege, from time to time ( especially during wartimes ) governments and / or postal administrations also authorize active duty service members and other designated individuals to send mails for free by writing " Free " or " Soldier's Mail " ( or equivalent ) on the item of mail in lieu of paid postal franking, or by using appropriate free franked postal stationery.

* Superfast / Mail Trains in India, a type of fast trains in India

The reason given for this by the Royal Mail is that they needed to increase the type size of the wording on the " plate " listing the collection times to improve legibility for those with poor sight and that consequently there was insufficient room for listing all collection times throughout the day.

For example, an address record, having mnemonic A for IPv4 and AAAA for IPv6, maps the domain name in the first field to an IP address in the fourth field, and a mail exchanger record ( type MX ) specifies the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ) mail host for a domain.

Mail is used as protective clothing for butchers against meat-packing equipment.

* Internet Mail Consortium – Standards body

In January 2012 the Daily Mail ran a story following the murder of Alisa Dmitrijeva a Latvian teenager and resident of Wisbech whose body was found on the Queen's Sandringham estate.

Bloggers repeated a report in The Mail on Sunday that the lobbying industry ’ s regulatory body said that Ms Dunlop ’ s arrangement with Environment Minister Mr Woolas clearly breached its code of conduct banning political consultants from holding a Commons pass or having ‘ any involvement on behalf of a political party ’.

The Western Mail reported that his body was discovered in the bath of his hotel suite, having lain there for some days.

* Canada: The country's main national newspaper, the Globe and Mail uses honorifics in the body of most news articles, except for sports, arts, and some editorials.

Wyndham-Lewis lived in Paris from the mid 1920s while doing historical research ( although he contributed a column called ' At the Sign of the Blue Moon ' to the Daily Mail which his followers regard as his most outstanding body of humorous work ).