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| Email | An electronic message transferred between two or more devices connected to a network. |
| Mail Client Software | A program that lets a user send and receive email and store email on the user's computer. |
| Webmail | A service that allows you to send and receive email by using a Web browser and the service's Web site. |
| Email Addresses | A unique identifier for an individual or organization that is connected to the Internet, consisting of a user name, that at sign (@), and the domain name. |
| User Name | The part of an email address that the ISP uses to identify you. |
| Domain Name | The equivalent of an IP address that uses words and abbreviations; in an email address, the name of the computer that stores the email for a user. |
| Mail Server | A sever that runs special software for handling email tasks. |
| Message Header | All the information about an email message, including the recipients' and sender's email addresses, a subject line and, sometimes, the filename of an attachment. |
| Attachment | A separate file sent with an email message. |
| Message Body Pane | The part of the message window that displays the actual email message. |
| Message Body | The part of the email that contains the actual message. |
| Junk Emails | Unsolicited email usually selling n item or service; also called spam. |
| Junk E-mail Folder | In Windows Live Mail, the folder to which possible junk emails are automatically sent when they arrive in the Inbox. |
| Junk Folder | In Windows Live Hotmail, the folder to which possible junk emails are automatically sent when they arrive in the Inbox; also, in some email programs or Webmail, the folder to where possible junk email messages are automatically filed when they are copied for the server; also called spam folder. |
| Toolbar | In a Windows program, a bar that contains buttons to execute commands that allow you to use the programs. |
| Folder List | In an email program, a list of folders in which email messages are stored. |
| Inbox Folder | In an email program or in Webmail, the folder in which messges that the user receives are stored. |
| Draft Folder | In an email program, the folder in which messages that you are not yet ready to send are saved. |
| Sent Items Folder | In Windoes Live Mail, the folder that contains copies of messages you sent; in Windows Live Hotmail, called Sent folder. |
| Deleted Items Folder | In Windows Live Mail, the folder that stores messages you delete untl you permanently delete them; in Windows Live Hotmail, called Deleted folder. |
| Outbox | In an email program or Webmail, the folder in which messaes waiting to be sent are stored. |
| Messgage List | In an email program, the list containing the message headers of the messages in the selected folder. |
| Reading Pane | In Windows Live Mail and in Windoes Live Hotmail, the pane that displays the contents of the selected message in the message list. |
| Today Window | In Windows Live Hotmail, the page that appears when you first log into your Hotmail account and displays the total number of messages in your mailbox and the percentage of your storage space on the Hotmail server that you have used. |
| Contact List | Stores people's names and email addresses, as well as other information, such as the person's postal address and telephone number; also called address book. |
| Calendar | In Windows Live Hotmail, the page that provides the user with an electronic calendar. |
| To | In an email program or in Webmail, the text box in which you enter the email address of the recipient. |
| Cc | Short for carbon or courtesy copy; in an email program, the text box in which you type the email address of recipient to whom you are sending a copy of an email message. |
| Bcc | Short for blind carbon or courtesy copy; in an email program, the text box in which you type the email address of recipients to whom you want to send a copy of an email message without the knowledge of the other addressee. |
| From | In an email program, the text box that contains the sender's name, email address, or both. |
| Subject | In an email program, the text box in which you summarize the main topic of an email message. |
| Virus | A program that runs without your permission on your computer and performs undesired tasks, such as deleting the contents of your hard disk. |
| Self-Replicate | To create, and in some cases distribute, a copy. |
| Worms | A self-replicating program that causes problems by reproducing so many times that it uses all available computer resources or it sends itself as an attachment to email messages to everyone in the contact list on the infected computer. |
| Trojan Horses | A program that hides inside other programs, and then causes prblems when the other programs is downloaded and run (similar to a virus). |
| Antivirus Software | Software that protects your computer from viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. |
| Netiquette | A term coined from the phrase "Internet etiquette" that refers to the set of commonly accepted rules that represent proper behavior on the Internet. |
| Forwarding | To send an email message that you receive to someone else. |
| Emoticon | A form of electronic body language represented by a group of keyboard characters that represent a human expression when viewed together by tilting your head to the left. |
| Smiley | An emoticon consisting of a colon, a hyphen, and a close parenthesis :-) so that it looks like a smile. |
| Contact | Each person that you add to a Contact list. |
| Contact Card | The information anout a contact stored in a Contact list. |
| Nickname | A shortened name for a contact. |
| Group | A group of list of two or more email addresses stored as one contact; also call category or mailing list. |
