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-<glossary id="apx-gloss">
-
- <title>Glossary</title>
-
- <glossentry id="attachment">
- <glossterm>Attachment</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Any file sent along with an email. Attachments may be embedded in
- a message or appended to it.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-<glossentry id="automatic-indexing">
- <glossterm>Automatic Indexing</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Pre-sorting procedure that allows
- <application>Evolution</application> to refer to data quickly.
- It enables faster searches and decreases memory usage for
- data displays.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="bcc">
- <glossterm>Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy)</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A way of addressing a message. Bcc is used to send a group of
- people an e-mail, while hiding their names and addresses from each
- other.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="cc">
- <glossterm>Cc (Carbon Copy)</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Carbon-copies are used to send a 3rd party a copy of the e-mail,
- so they an keep up to date on a conversation, without being in the
- To: list.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="conduit">
- <glossterm>Conduit</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A synchronization conduit is a small application which controls
- the transfer of data between a handheld device and a desktop
- computer.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="druid">
- <glossterm>Druid</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A tool which guides a user through a series of steps, usually to
- configure or set up a program. Equivalent to "Assistant" and
- "Wizard."
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-<glossentry id="emoticon">
- <glossterm>Emoticon</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Also called "smileys," emoticons are the little sideways faces made
- of colons and parentheses which people use to convey emotion in email.
- Examples: :-) or ;( .
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="evolution">
- <glossterm>Evolution</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> is the <acronym> GNOME
- </acronym> groupware application.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="execute">
- <glossterm>Execute</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- To run a program. Any file that can be run is called an
- executable. <application>Evolution</application> can download
- executable attachments, but before they can be run, the files must
- be marked as executable with a shell or file manager. This
- security precaution prevents the automatic or accidental execution
- of malicious programs. For more information on executables and file
- permissions, see the documentation for your file manager or shell.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="filetree">
- <glossterm>File Tree</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A way of describing a group of files on a computer. With the
- perversity typical of computer (and especially Unix and Linux)
- nomenclature, the top of the tree is called the root directory,
- and denoted by <systemitem><filename>/</filename></systemitem>.
- The rest of the "branches" spread downwards from the root. Don't
- confuse the root directory with the <systemitem>root</systemitem>
- account, or root's home directory,
- <systemitem><filename>/home/root</filename></systemitem>.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="filter">
- <glossterm>Filter</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Within <application>Evolution</application>, a filter is a method
- of sorting mail automatically. You can create filters to perform
- one or more actions on a message that meets any (or all) of a wide
- range of criteria.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="forward">
- <glossterm>Forward</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- the user can send a third party a message
- which was sent to the user originally.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="groupware">
- <glossterm>Groupware</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Groupware is a term describing an application which helps groups
- of people work together. Typically, a groupware application will
- have several productivity features built into one program.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="haiku">
- <glossterm>Haiku</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A traditional Japanese form of poetry. The poems are three lines
- long, with first and last lines having five syllables, and the
- second line seven syllables.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="html">
- <glossterm>HTML</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Hyper-text Markup Language(<acronym>HTML</acronym>) is a language
- for describing page layout in electronic documents like web pages,
- help files, and email messages. HTML can be used in email and
- news posts to insert images and apply text treatments.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="hot-key">
- <glossterm>Hot Key</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Hot-keys are keyboard combinations used to do actions on a
- computer instead of using the mouse to do the same action.
- Hot-keys can speed up computer usage.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="ical">
- <glossterm>iCal</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- <application>iCal</application> is the program which
- <application>Evolution</application> uses to manage the calendar
- section.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="imap">
- <glossterm>IMAP</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Depending upon whom you ask, IMAP stands for the Internet Mail
- Access Protocol, or the Interim Mail Access Protocol. Whatever it
- stands for, it allows access to email which is typically (although
- not always) stored remotely on a server rather than on a local
- hard disk. Often contrasted with <glossterm>POP</glossterm>.
- This will not be on the test.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="inline">
- <glossterm>Inline</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Displayed as part of a message or other document, rather than
- attached as a separate file. Contrast with <glossterm
- linkend="attachment">Attachment</glossterm>.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="ldap">
- <glossterm>LDAP</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, allows a client
- to search through a large database of addresses, phone numbers,
- and people stored on a server.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="mail-client">
- <glossterm>Mail Client</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A mail client is the application with which a person reads and
- sends e-mail. Its counterparts are the various types of mail
- servers, which handle user authentication and direct messages from
- sender to recipient.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="minicard">
- <glossterm>Minicard</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A format for the display of contact data. Similar in appearance
- to a small business card.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="nautilus">
- <glossterm>Nautilus</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- <application>Nautilus</application> is the next generation file
- manager for <acronym>GNOME</acronym> being written by Eazel.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="nickname">
- <glossterm>Nickname</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- An alias for an e-mail address.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="pop">
- <glossterm>POP</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- POP, the Post Office Protocol, is a mechanism for email
- transport. In contrast to IMAP, it is used only to get mail from
- a server and store it locally on your hard disk.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="protocol">
- <glossterm>Protocol</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- An agreed-upon method of communication, especially one for
- sending particular types of information between computer systems.
- Examples include POP (Post Office Protocol), for email, and HTTP
- (HypterText Transfer Protocol), for web pages.
-
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="regular-expression">
- <glossterm>Regular Expression</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A regular expression, or "regex", is a way of describing a
- string of text using metacharacters or wild-card symbols. For
- example, the statement <userinput>fly.*so[a|u]p</userinput> means
- "any phrase beginning with 'fly' and ending in 'soup' or
- 'soap'". If you searched for that expression, you'd find both
- "fly in my soup" and "fly in my soap." There's not room here to
- go into depth, but if you want, have a look at the documentation
- for the <command>grep</command> command.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="script">
- <glossterm>Script</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A program written in an interpreted (rather than compiled)
- language. Often used as a synonym for "macro," to denote a series
- of pre-recorded commands or actions within an application.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="sendmail">
- <glossterm>Sendmail</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- As its name implies, <application>sendmail</application> is a
- program which sends mail. <application>Evolution</application>
- can use it instead of <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>; some people
- prefer it because it offers more flexibility, but is more
- difficult to set up.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="shortcut-bar">
- <glossterm>Shortcut Bar</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A portion of <application>Evolution</application> which offers
- users fast access to the most frequently used portions of the
- application.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="signature">
- <glossterm>Signature</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- In email terms, a signature is a piece of text placed at the end
- of every email sent, like a hand-written signature at the bottom
- of a written letter. A signature can be anything from a favorite
- quotation to a link to a web page; courtesy dictates that it be
- fewer than four lines long.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="SMTP">
- <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- This is the most common way of transporting mail messages from
- the client's computer (you) to the server. SMTP stands for
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="spam">
- <glossterm>Spam</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- Useless, unsolicited e-mail. Spam normally comes in forms of
- chain letters and advertisements for unscrupulous or clueless
- companies. Messages that are merely useless are called "opt-in
- newsletters."
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
- <glossentry id="tooltip">
- <glossterm>Tool-Tip</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A small box of explanatory text which appears when the mouse
- pointer is held motionless over a button or other interface
- element.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
-
-
-
- <glossentry id="virus">
- <glossterm>Virus</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A malicious program which inserts itself into others so that it will be
- executed, allowing it to spread to still more programs and other computers.
- A virus can cause substantial damage by clogging networks or disk drives,
- deleting files, or opening security holes.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="vcard">
- <glossterm>vCard</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A file format for the exchange of contact information. When you
- get an address card attached to an email, it's probably in vCard
- format. Not to be confused with <glossterm
- linkend="vfolder">vFolder</glossterm>.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="vfolder">
- <glossterm>vFolder</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- An email organization tool. vFolders allows you to create a folder
- that contains the results of a complex search. Folder contents are
- are updated dynamically.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
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