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-<glossary id="glossary">
-
- <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>
-
-<!-- Removed pending decision on names
- <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="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="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>