These are my personal opinions, formed by using email for the past twenty years. Electronic communication, because of its speed and broadcasting ability, is fundamentally different from paper-based communication. Because the turnaround time can be so fast, email is more conversational than traditional paper communications. In a paper document, it is absolutely essential to make everything completely clear and unambiguous because your audience may not have a chance to ask for clarification. With email documents, your recipient can ask questions immediately.
Email thus tends, like conversational speech, to be much sloppier and more ambiguous.
This is not always bad. It might not be a worthwhile expenditure of energy to slave over a message, making sure that your spelling is faultless, your words eloquent, your grammar beyond reproach, if the point of the message is to inform the recipient that you are ready to go to lunch. Granted, you should put some effort into keeping your subjects agreeing with your verbs, spelling correctly, avoiding mixing metaphors, and so on. But if The Rules that Mrs. Grundy laid down in seventh-grade English get in the way of effective communication, throw them out. Your correspondent may have difficulty telling if you are serious or kidding, happy or sad, frustrated or euphoric.