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Safe Recipients list

A list of mailing lists or other subscription domain names and email addresses that users belong to and want to receive messages from. Messages sent to these addresses are not treated as junk e-mail.

Safe Senders list

A list of domain names and e-mail addresses that users want to receive messages from. E-mail addresses in Contacts and in the Global Address Book are included in this list by default.

script

In character sets, a set of characters from a particular writing system, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, or Latin.

scripting language

A programming language designed specifically for Web site programming. Examples include JavaScript and VBScript.

Search Folders

Virtual folders that contain views of all e-mail items matching specific search criteria. The items remain stored in one or more Outlook folders.

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)

Method of security that allows users to exchange encrypted and digitally signed messages with any S/MIME-compliant mail reader. Messages are encrypted or digitally signed by the sending client and decrypted by the recipient.

Secure Sockets Layer

A proposed open standard that was developed by Netscape Communications for establishing a secure communications channel to help prevent the interception of critical information, such as credit card numbers.

security labels

An Outlook feature that allows you to add information to a message header about the sensitivity of the message content. The label can also restrict which recipients can open, forward, or send the message.

Setup settings file

An INI file, such as Setup.ini, read by Setup.exe at the start of the installation process; contains properties that help to control the installation process.

S/MIME receipts

An e-mail security feature used to request confirmation that a message was received unaltered, and information about who opened the message and when it was opened. When you send a message with an S/MIME receipt request, this verification information is returned as a message to your Inbox.

SMTP mail server

An e-mail server that uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP is available with Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server.

SQL server

A network or Web server that uses the standardized query language protocol for requesting information from a database. More commonly, a computer with an installed configuration of Microsoft SQL Server with a configured database that is available from a network location.

system locale

In Windows NT and Windows 2000, the setting that determines the code page and default input locale. See also code page, input locale, user locale.