Glossary

Glossary of terms related to Microsoft Exchange and Mobile Messaging

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Mail Hosting

Mail hosting is the service of providing email accounts using either the IMAP or POP3 protocols. This is usually in contrast to Exchange Hosting, which provides email in addition to shared calendars, centrally stored contacts and other benefits.

Mailbox

A mailbox is what contains messages on an email server or groupware server. Mailbox accounts hold received, sent and draft messages. Mail server administrators can set size limits for mailboxes.

Mailbox Limits

Mailbox limits is a setting configured by an Exchange Server administrator that creates a maximum size for a user's Exchange mailbox. The mailbox limits apply to the total size including received, sent and draft messages. Mailbox limits are generally put in place to control server resources and to prompt users to maintain their mailbox by removing unneeded messages. There is also a practical performance based mailbox limit of 6GB, above which an Exchange account will usually be to slow to be usable.

Managed Exchange

Another word for Hosted Exchange, Managed Exchange refers to the outsourcing of the support staff and services needed to operate Microsoft Exchange Server.

Memory Card

A memory card is a small data storage device that uses Flash memory. There are multiple formats of memory cards with different form factors, speeds and capacities. Memory cards are often used in mobile phones to provide storage for images, and can be read by inserting the memory card into a card reader of the correct format.

Messaging

Messaging refers to any technology used to relay an electronic message. It is commonly used as short hand for instant messaging, but this can be confusing as the term messaging applies equally well to text messaging or social network messaging.

Messaging Application Programming Interface

Also abbreviated as MAPI, the messaging application programming interface is a software architecture and component object model API for Microsoft Windows systems. MAPI allows client programs to become email messaging-enabled and messaging-aware by calling MAPI subsystem routines that interface with certain messaging servers.

Microsoft Outlook

See Outlook

MMS

See Multimedia Messaging Service

Mobile Services

Mobile services refer to additional messaging features for mobile phones beyond voice calls and voice mail. This generally included SMS and MMS services, mobile web browsing, mobile phone apps and other connectivity features.

Motorola

Motorola is a US company that builds mobile phone handsets used by most of the major mobile carriers. Motorola handsets use the Symbian operating system. Motorola also owns Good Technologies, so users can access Microsoft Exchange accounts using Goodlink software.

Mozilla

Mozilla refers to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation that currently develops the Firefox web browser and other communication software. Based on the work of the now-defunct Netscape Communications Corporation, Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers along with Internet Explorer and Safari. Mozilla distributes Firefox for free under an open source license, but does have a marketing agreement with Google that provides it with large amounts of revenue.

Multimedia Messaging Service

The multimedia messaging service, or MMS, is a mobile phone technology that allows users to send multimedia files such as image, audio, or video attached to a short text message.

MX Records

Short for Mail Exchange records, this is a record in the Domain Name System that specifies which servers should handle email for a given domain. MX records allow you to specify priority of a server providing some load balancing and fault tolerance capability.