Mailismus 1.3.0
Administration Guide
Appendix A - Glossary Of Terms
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- API - Application Programming Interface. A concrete software interface
- CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing. Specifies aggregated IP addresses, as a subnet and a routing prefix
- DBA - Database Administrator
- Dispatcher - a NAF component
- DNS - Domain Name System
- DR - Delivery Report.
Depending on usage, this can specifically mean a positive DR, or it can generically cover all DRs, including NDRs
- DSN - Delivery Status Notification (alternate term for a DR)
- ESMTP - Extended SMTP
- J2SE - Java 2 Standard Edition, another term for the standard Java JDK download
- JAR - Java Archive, this is the type and file extension of the binary code files that represent a Java application
- JDBC - Java Database Connectivity, Java's database API
- JDK - Java Development Kit
- JRE - Java Runtime Environment
- JVM - Java Virtual Machine
- Mailismus - this mail-server suite
- MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- MS - Message Store (mailboxes)
- MTA - Message Transfer Agent (technical term for a mail server)
- MUA - Message User Agent.
This is the email client application, in which you send, receive, read and compose emails, eg. Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, Pine
- NAF - Network Application Framework (see Guide)
- NAFlet - NAF Applet
- NAFMAN - NAF Manager
- NDR - Non-Delivery Report (notifies senders of bounced messages)
- OS - Operating System (eg. Linux or MS-Wndows)
- SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 821 and successors)
- VM - Virtual Machine (usually short for Java VM - see JVM)