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Terminology

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DKIM
DomainKeys Identified Mail: a system for digitally signing email that provides the means to securely verify that the email's origin is legitimate.
DNS
wikipedia:Domain Name System: a naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network (i.e. that identifies "google.com" with its internet protocol address)
FQDN
wikipedia:Fully qualified domain name: a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS).
MTA
wikipedia:Message transfer agent: an email relay service, i.e. Postfix, QMail or Exim4.
SMTP
wikipedia:Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: a network protocol for sending email to a remote server, often involving password authentication and end-to-end SSL encryption.
SSL
(a.k.a Transport Layer Security) a method of connecting to a remote network host that encrypts traffic on any given network protocol that uses it.
TLS
wikipedia:Transport Layer Security a method of connecting to a remote network host that encrypts traffic on any given network protocol that uses it.
cron
wikipedia:Cron: a job scheduler for UNIX-like operating systems
installation directory
The directory (folder) on the web server where X2Engine is installed. You will know that you are operating within this directory when you see a file constants.php and the following subdirectories: assets, css, custom, framework, images, js, protected, themes and uploads.
URI
wikipedia:Uniform Resource Identifier: The part of a URL that identifies the resource on the server to be accessed. In the context of the API, this refers to the relative path within the web server based in the web root of X2Engine, i.e. index.php/api2/Contacts/324.json as opposed to http://example.com/x2engine/index.php/api2/Contacts/324.json
user menu
The menu accessed by clicking on one's own username in the far upper-right-hand corner of the application.