E-mail terms starting with M

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mail contact A mail-enabled Active Directory contact that contains information about people or organizations that exist outside an Exchange Server organization.
Mail List A mailing list is a list of people who subscribe to a periodic mailing distribution on a particular topic.
mail user A mail-enabled Active Directory user that represents a user outside the Exchange organization. Each mail user has an external e-mail address.
mail-enabled An Active Directory object that has at least one e-mail address defined. If the user is mail-enabled, the user has an associated e-mail address, but does…
mail-enabled universal distribution group A group of recipients that are created to expedite the mass e-mailing of messages and other information.
Mailbox An area on a storage device where email is placed. In email systems, each user has a private mailbox.
mailbox database A database for storing mailboxes in Exchange Server. The mailbox database manages the data in mailboxes, tracks deleted messages and mailbox sizes, and…
mailbox delivery queue A group of temporary queues that hold messages that are being delivered to a Mailbox server by using encrypted Exchange RPC.
Mailbox server role An Exchange Server 2007 server role that provides e-mail storage and advanced scheduling services for Microsoft Office Outlook users.
mailbox store A database for storing mailboxes in Exchange. Mailbox stores store data that is private to an individual and contain mailbox folders generated when a new…
mailbox user A mail-enabled Active Directory user object that has mailbox attributes. [Exchange 2007]
mailbox-enabled An Active Directory object that has an Exchange mailbox associated with it; therefore it can both send and receive messages within the Exchange system.
Mailer Daemon A Unix program used in the management of e-mail messages. Not generally encountered by a user unless the user gets a bounced message.
Mailing List A collection of e-mail addresses of people who have asked to receive regular mail discussions on a particular topic, and for which they can sometimes…
Mailing List Manager An automated program to handle the administrative functions of adding/removing subscribers, disseminating the message postings, sending topic related and…
Mailto A HTML tag that allows visitors to a site click on a link that creates a new message in their default email client.
managed content settings Settings that are applied to the managed folders in users' mailboxes to control the retention and journaling of messages for messaging records management…
managed custom folder A type of managed folder that is created by an Exchange administrator and placed in a user's mailbox for messaging records management (MRM) purposes.
managed default folder A mailbox folder (such as the Inbox folder) that appears in Office Outlook by default and to which messaging records management (MRM) has been applied.
managed folder A folder in a user's mailbox to which messaging records management (MRM) has been applied.
managed folder assistant A Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistant that creates managed folders in users' mailboxes and applies managed content settings to them for messaging records…
managed folder mailbox policy A logical grouping of managed folders. When a managed folder mailbox policy is applied to a user's mailbox, all the managed folders that are linked to the…
manager access The highest level that can be assigned in an IBM® Lotus® Notes® access control list.
MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) The API that is used by Microsoft messaging applications such as Outlook to access collaboration data.
MAPI profiles The set of MAPI configuration settings, stored in the registry, that enable MAPI clients, such as Microsoft Outlook(r), to connect to various messaging…
matched name selection method The mechanism used to help a caller differentiate between users with names that match the touch-tone or speech input. [Exchange 2007]
MBR (Mail-based replication) A mechanism to replicate directory information through a messaging transport. This term applies to Exchange 5.
MCU (Multipoint Control Unit) A reference to the T.120 protocol that allows clients to connect to data conferencing sessions.
MDB (message database) An instance of a database implemented in Exchange server. A single MDB is normally identified as being public or private depending on the type of data…
message dehydration In Exchange Server 2007, the removal of unnecessary elements, such as MIME content, from queued messages that are cached in memory.
message envelope The information contained in an e-mail message that is required to send and deliver a message between messaging servers by using SMTP protocol commands.
Message Header Message headers generally contain the identities of the author and recipients, the subject of the message, and the date the message was sent.
message tracking The tracking of events from the time a message enters an Edge Transport server or Hub Transport server to the time it leaves the any of the Edge Transport…
message-only journaling Message-only journaling creates a copy of all messages and the corresponding P2 message header data to and from users on a mailbox database and sends the…
messaging profile A group of settings that provide Exchange with information about a client's configuration. [Exchange 5.5]
Metabase A store that contains metadata such as that used by Internet Information Server IIS to obtain its configuration data.
Metabase update service A component in Exchange 2000 that reads data from Active Directory and transposes it into the local IIS metabase.
metadata Metadata is information about a particular data set which may describe, for example, how, when, and by whom it was received, created, accessed, and/or…
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services A set of four distinct hosted services: Hosted Filtering, which helps organizations protect themselves from e-mail-borne malware; Hosted Archive, which…
Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants The process that runs on a Mailbox server and performs background processing of mailboxes in the Exchange store. [Exchange 2007]
Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant A Microsoft Exchange tool that is used to automatically determine what set of data is required to troubleshoot symptoms that are identified.
Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging service A service that implements Unified Messaging (UM) capabilities for UM-enabled users. [Exchange 2007]
Microsoft Mail Connector An Exchange component that provides connectivity to Microsoft Mail for PC Networks gateways and Microsoft Mail for AppleTalk Networks (also known as…
Microsoft Outlook Web Access Interact with the ActiveX Server function built into Microsoft Internet Information Server.
Microsoft Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector Enables users to share free and busy information with one another. [Exchange 5.5]
migrate See "migration." [Exchange 2007]
migration Moving files to another computer application or platform; may require conversion to a different format.
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension.
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) An Internet standard that allows different forms of data including video, audio, or binary data to be attached to e-mail without requiring translation…
missed call notification An e-mail message that is sent to a Unified Messaging subscriber that indicates that someone called but did not leave a message. [Exchange 2007]
mixed mode The default operating mode of Exchange when it is installed. Mixed mode allows Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000 servers and servers running earlier…
mixed-mode site An Exchange 5.x site that also contains Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 servers. [Exchange 2003]
Mixed-vintage site (also known as "PtOz") An Exchange 5.x site that also contains servers running Exchange 2000. [Exchange 2000]
MMC (Microsoft Management Console) A management display framework that hosts administration tools and applications.
MNS (Majority Node Set) A type of cluster quorum model in Windows Server 2003. Exchange Server 2007 uses a new type of MNS quorum with file share witness to support failover…
Monad The code name for the Windows command-line shell technology and scripting language that provides a task automation solution for the Windows platform.
move The task of moving an object from one location to another, such as moving a mailbox from one server to another.
MRM (messaging records management) Records management technology in Exchange 2007 that helps organizations to reduce the legal risks that are associated with e-mail and other communications.
msExchMessageJournalRecipient attribute This attribute specifies the journal mailbox for the particular mailbox store.
MTA (message transfer agent) The component in all versions of Exchange Server that transfers messages between servers using the X.400 protocol. [Exchange 2000]
MTA Check A command line tool that can be used to check the message transfer agent (MTA) database consistency of Exchange MTA, and to repair the MTA database if…
MTE (Message Transfer Envelope) A MAPI message that holds the delivery information for a message.
multifactor authentication An authentication method that requires two or more authentication methods, which may include something the user provides, such as certificates; something…
multiple password policy Enables administrators to configure the Key Management (KM) server to require multiple passwords to perform certain tasks. [Exchange 5.5]