- ActiveX Controls
- A set of technologies that enables interactive content for the World
Wide Web. With ActiveX, Web sites can be enhanced with multimedia
effects, interactive objects, and sophisticated application.
- address book
- A place where you store the e-mail addresses you send messages to and create groups of e-mail addresses for group mailings.
- authentication
- The way a computer on the Internet verifies your identity. For example, the mail server that stores your mail must verify your identity using your name and password before it downloads your mail to you.
- Base64
- A new standard that is available for encoding and sending files over the Internet. It is a MIME type that uses a 6-bit format.
- binaries
- Files that contain data other than text, such as pictures. The enclosures contained in news messages are usually binary files.
- BinHex
- The method for sending a Macintosh file. This ensures that the two parts of the file, the resource fork and the data fork, do not get separated
when the file is sent.
- blind carbon copy (BCC)
- A way to send a copy of a message to a person without their name or address appearing in the recipient list.
- character set
- The sets of characters needed to display text in various languages. For example, in order to view Japanese characters, you need to have the Japanese character set.
- Deleted Messages folder
- The folder where all of the messages you delete are stored. This folder is emptied when you quit Internet Mail and News.
- download
- The process of receiving information from the Internet. In Internet Mail and News, you can download mail and news messages to your computer.
- e-mail address
- Your user name and mail server address separated by an @ sign. For example, Bob@company.com
- electronic mail (e-mail)
- A way to send message and files over the Internet.
- enclosures
- A file that you attach to an outgoing message or that you receive as an attachment in an incoming message.
- encryption
- The method used to secure data that is transferred over the Internet by scrambling it in such a way that only the intended receiver of the message can read its contents.
- favorites
- A way to mark the newsgroups that you visit often so that they are easy to find.
- file helpers
- A utility or application that processes files that Internet Mail and News can't process itself. For example, you could set up a relationship between the file type .xlc and Excel so that when you receive a message enclosure with the .xlc suffix, Excel will automatically start and display the file.
- filter
- A way to have Internet Mail and News perform tasks automatically, such as replying, filing, and alerting, on incoming mail and news messages based on the criteria you set.
- forward
- Passing on a message you have received to another person.
- Getting Started folder
- The folder where helpful messages on how to use Internet Mail and News are stored.
- header
- The part of mail and news messages that includes instructions on how to handle the message. This is similar to the information that you find on the envelope of a letter you send through the mail. A header includes information such as the subject, date, priority, sender, receiver, and the series of computers the message went through until it was received by you.
- Inbox folder
- The folder where new messages are filed.
- Internet service provider (ISP)
- An Internet service provider maintains a server that is directly connected to the Internet. You must connect through a service provider unless you are directly connected to the Internet. Connecting to a service provider entails calling the provider and setting up a PPP account.
- mail message
- A message you receive via electronic mail.
- MIME
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
An Internet standard for transferring various file formats.
- news message
- A message that is posted on a newsgroup.
- newsgroup
- A collection of messages, pertaining to a particular subject, that are stored on various computers on the Internet. You can access these newsgroups using Internet Mail and News and read the messages they contain. Also called USENET.
- newsgroup list
- The list of newsgroups that are currently available to you.
- NNTP host
- Network News Transfer Protocol. The protocol used to send and receive news messages over the Internet.
- Outbox folder
- The folder where outgoing messages are stored until Internet Mail and News connects to the Internet.
- POP host
- Post Office Protocol. A way mail is transferred over the Internet. Internet Mail and News uses POP to receive your incoming e-mail.
- POP password
- The password you need to access your e-mail and download it from your mail server.
- PPP
- Point to Point Protocol. One of the protocols that allows computers to connect to the Internet using a telephone line and a modem.
- protocol
- The rules for information transferred over the Internet so that your computer will know what to do when it receives the information. For example, all Web pages use the HTTP protocol. When your computer downloads a file from the Internet that uses the HTTP protocol, it knows to use a Web browser to display the file. Other protocols include SMTP, FTP, and NNTP.
- protocol helpers
- A utility or application that processes protocols, such as http, that Internet Mail and News can't process itself. For example, you could set up a relationship between the protocol http (this is the protocol for Web pages) and Internet Explorer so that when you receive a message with a Web page address in it, such as http://www.microsoft.com, clicking on this address will start Internet Explorer and open the web page.
- quote
- The character appended to the beginning of every line of original text in a message you are replying to or forwarding.
- redirect
- A way to send a message you have received to someone, so that the From line retains the original sender's name. For example, if you receive a message from Bob, you can use redirect to send it to Don, so that Bob remains on the From line.
- ROT13
- Rotate 13. A method of scrambling the contents of a message, most often used in news messages to hide the ending of a movie or book, by rotating the characters in a message 13 characters to the right in the alphabet. For example, the word "mail" would appear as "znvy" once ROT13 was applied.
- Sent Mail folder
- The folder where copies of the mail messages you send are stored.
- signature
- Information about you, such as your company name, department, title, phone or fax number, and favorite quotation, that you can automatically add to all the messages you send.
- SMTP host
- Simple Mail Transport Protocol. A way mail is transferred over the Internet. Internet Mail and News uses SMTP to send your outgoing mail.
- toolbar
- The row of buttons on the top of each window that you can click to perform common tasks.
- user
- A contact in the address book.
- user group
- A way to group users in the address book together so that you can send mail to everyone in your user group by typing the group name.
- UUEncode
- A method for sending data files to any computer. If you are sending a Macintosh file, be sure to use a program like Stuffit to convert the
files to BinHex first.
For definitions of general Internet terms, see the MSN Internet Reference.