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<glossary id="glossary">

 <title>Glossary</title>

 <glossentry id="attachment">
  <glossterm>Attachment</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    Any file sent with an e-mail for the reciever to download.
   </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="druid">
  <glossterm>Druid</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    A small program or script used to help configure or set up some
    larger program.  The <application>mail setup druid</application>
    helps you ready your email system for use.  Druids are the Linux
    equivalent of "Assistants" and "Wizards." 
   </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.  In order to be execute program, a user must have
    the proper permissions.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="filter">
  <glossterm>Filter</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    Within <application>Evolution</application>, a filter is a method
    of sorting mail automatically.  
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="forward">
  <glossterm>Forward</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    By forwarding an e-mail, 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 who has many
    productivity features built into one program.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="haiku">
  <glossterm>Haiku</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
     A Japanese form of poetry.  Haiku are unrhymed, and
     three lines long. The first and last lines should have five
     syllables, and the second line seven syllables.  The subject
     matter is traditionally related to the seasons.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="html">
  <glossterm>HTML</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    Hyper-text Markup Language(<acronym>HTML</acronym>) is the layout
    language which all webpages are written in.  HTML can be used
    inside of e-mails to insert images, justfiy text different ways,
    and even include webpages inside the e-mail itself.
   </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="live-doc">
  <glossterm>Live Document</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
      A document embedded in or attached an email message that
      contains scripting or other active contents.  For example, a
      <application>Gnumeric</application> spreadsheet page could be
      included in a message, and the recipient could alter some of the
      data from within <application>Evolution</application> without
      having to start another program.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry> 

 <glossentry id="mail-client">
  <glossterm>Mail Client</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    A mail client is the application which a user reads and sends
    their e-mail with.
   </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="script">
  <glossterm>Script</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    A program which is written in an interpreted language, which can
    be executed.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="shortcut-bar">
  <glossterm>Shortcut Bar</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    The <interface>Shortcut Bar</interface> is where the user accesses
    all the components of <application>Evolution</application> from.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="spam">
  <glossterm>Spam</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    Spam: useless e-mail.  Spam normally comes in forms of
    chain-letters and advertisements for websites or services.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

 <glossentry id="vfolder">
  <glossterm>vFolder</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    vFolders allow an e-mail to be shared among multiple folders, so
    it appears that theres a copy of the e-mail in each folder.
   </para>
  </glossdef>
 </glossentry>

</glossary>