E-mail terms Here's a general glossary of terms you will encounter with most e-mail clients. address book: a part of the e-mail client that stores important e-mail addresses for future use. check mail: this button or menu choice let's the user immediately check to see if there are any new messages on the mail server. filter: a filter allows the user to set certain e-mail addresses (or even certain words) as flags to either trash or place certain addresses in particular mailboxes. For example, in order to cut down on the amount of spam messages I receive, I have created a filter on the word sex. If I receive an e-mail with that word in either the addresses or subject line, the e-mail is automatically placed in the trash directory. forward: this choice copies the message into a new outgoing message and asks the sender to place a new address in the proper place. For example, if you received a message from Joe Cool that you would like to send to Joe Blow, you would choose forward and then place Joe Blow's address in the proper place. mailbox: most clients use this metaphor as a way to organize the mail directories. Usually there will be at least an Inbox, an Outbox, and a Trash. In addition to these, most e-mail clients allow the user to create and name additional mailboxes. reply: by choosing reply, the message being replied to will be places in a new outgoing message with the sender's e-mail address already places in the proper place. send saved (or queued) messages: most clients allow the user to work on or write message offline (when the computer is not connected to the internet), and choosing this will automatically send all messages in the outbox. spam: an unsolicited message, usually in the form of an advertisement. signature: a few lines of text, usually a name and e-mail address and sometimes a quotation added automatically at the end of an e-mail message.