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| Address book. | |
| Allows you to maintain and edit e-mail addresses and other pertinent information about frequent contacts. | |
| Attachment. | |
| A file that has been created in another application and is sent along with an e-mail message. | |
| Auto Reply. | |
| A feature that allows you to set up a preformatted message that will be delivered automatically as a reply to anyone who sends you a mail message. | |
| Bcc. | |
| Blind carbon copy, used to copy e-mail messages to individuals without advertising their names to other recipients. | |
| Block. | |
| To set the mail system to automatically delete or send messages from predefined addresses to the trash. | |
| Cc. | |
| Carbon copy, used to send a copy of an e-mail message to individuals other than primary recipients. | |
| Compose. | |
| The act of creating a new e-mail message. | |
| Contact. | |
| A person whose information is maintained in your address book. | |
| Display name. | |
| A familiar or formal name that is associated with an e-mail address. For example, the display name for the e-mail address jsmith@someorg.com might be John Smith, or Dr. Smith. | |
| Draft. | |
| An unfinished, unsent e-mail message preserved in the system for you to modify. | |
| Filter. | |
| A mechanism that allows you to define criteria (filters) that tell the system to route certain types of messages to special destination folders. | |
| Folder. | |
| An electronic file folder that allows you to organize e-mail by topic, recipient, priority or any other criteria you need. | |
| Forward. | |
| Used to send a copy of an e-mail message to another individual not originally on the recipient list. | |
| Group. | |
| A number of contacts that are logically organized for some reason into a common mailing list. | |
| IMAP account. | |
| Internet Messaging Access Protocol (IMAP) is a standard type of mail account widely used on the Internet. It provides a message store that holds incoming e-mail until a user logs on and downloads it. IMAP is more sophisticated than the Post Office Protocol (POP3) mail server. Messages can be archived in folders, mailboxes can be shared, and a user can access multiple mail servers. Campus Pipeline allows you to create accounts that attach to IMAP servers so that you can retrieve e-mail messages being sent to you from other systems, such as your home Internet service provider (ISP). | |
| Inbox. | |
| The default folder that initially organizes and displays all e-mail messages sent to you. | |
| Message. | |
| An e-mail that contains text and/or attachments. | |
| Message Header. | |
| Information that is include with an e-mail message detailing aspects of the message like who sent it, who it is addressed to, the date it was sent, etc. Headers can be brief containing only basic information, or full containing complete details about the message. | |
| POP account. | |
| A standard type of mail account commonly used on the Internet. It provides a message store that holds incoming e-mail until a user logs on and downloads it. POP is a simple system with little selectivity. All pending messages and attachments are downloaded at the same time. Campus Pipeline allows you to create accounts that attach to POP servers so that you can retrieve e-mail messages being sent to you from other systems, such as your home Internet service provider (ISP). | |
| Read Receipt. | |
| A mechanism that allows you to get an indication of whether the message recipient opened and read a message that you have sent. | |
| Reply. | |
| Allows you to respond directly to the individual who sent an e-mail. In the Campus Pipeline system, you may also use a "Reply to All" feature that allows you to respond directly to the individual who sent the message and all other recipients of the message as designated in the To and Cc fields. | |
| Signature. | |
| Preformatted text that can be attached as a signature to a message that you send. | |
| Subject. | |
| The topic of an e-mail message used to indicate the purpose of the message to the reader. You should not send an e-mail unless it contains a subject. | |
| Subscribe. | |
| If you are accessing another mail account through the Campus Pipeline system, you may not see all of the folders that you are accustomed to seeing. If the system uses IMAP as its mail protocol, you may have to subscribe to the folders that it contains in order to see them through the Campus Pipeline application. This can be done by clicking on the account folder and clicking the Subscribe link located above the folder view. | |
| To. | |
| The primary recipient(s) of the e-mail message. You cannot send an e-mail without designating an individual in the To field. | |
| Unsubscribe. | |
| If you are accessing an IMAP mail system through the Campus Pipeline application and you do not want to see a particular folder, you may unsubscribe it. The folder will be preserved on your other mail system, but will not display in the Campus Pipeline application. | |