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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>

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 <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="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.
   </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 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="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="ldap">
   <glossterm>LDAP</glossterm>
   <glossdef>
    <para>
     LDAP is a protocol which allows a client to search through a
     large database of addresses, phone numbers, and people, as an
     alternative to a physical phone book.
    </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="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 wildcard 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 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="signature">
   <glossterm>Signature</glossterm>
   <glossdef>
    <para>
     Signatures allow a user to specify a message to place at the bottom of
     every email sent.  A signature can be anything from a favorite quote to
     a link to a webpage.
    </para>
   </glossdef>
  </glossentry> 


 <glossentry id="spam">
  <glossterm>Spam</glossterm>
  <glossdef>
   <para>
    Spam: useless, unwanted e-mail.  Spam normally comes in forms of
    chain-letters and advertisements for unscrupulous websites or
    services.  Messages that are merely useless are called
    "opt-in newsletters."
   </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>