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Unit 1: Gmail
Study tool for Unit 1: Gmail
Question | Answer |
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Gmail | Google's web-based email service. |
Electronic mail: a way of delivering messages over the internet. | |
PoP Email | A type of email service where message are stored on an email server and delivered directly to user's computers via email client software. Stands for Post Office Protocol, used to retrieve email messages from the server. |
Steps | 1) Sending it to Google 2) Protected security check 3) Data center for instructions 4) Server Floor (backup and viruses) 5) Instant Delivery |
Vacation Mode | When enabled, puts Gmail account on hold while the user is on vacation. |
Conversation | Group of related email messages |
Signature | Personalized text that appears at the bottom of an email message. |
Attachment Executable Program File | Computer file that contains a software program. |
Attachment | File attached to a normal text email message. |
CC | Carbon copy sends a message to additional recipients. |
BCC | Blind carbon copy sends message to additional recipients without displaying their addresses. |
Inbox | Main storage area for new incoming email messages. |
Label | Keyword or tag that describes an email message. |
Priority Inbox | Special Gmail inbox that organizes messages in order of importance. |
Snippet | Short excerpt from an email message. |
Star | Flagging an important email message. |
Archive | Means of storing older or inactive email messages. |
Filter | means of applying one or more actions to incoming mail. |
Keyword | Word included as part of a search queue. |
Contact | Person with whom you send email messages |
Contact group | Group of contacts, typically used to send email mailing lists. |
Spam | Unsolicited commercial email. |
Computer Virus | malicious computer program capable of reproducing itself and causing harm to files or programs on a computer system. |