Simple & Easy Notification Service glossary

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Available in Classic and VPC

Familiarize yourself with these key terms to get the most out of Simple & Easy Notification Service. The terms and their descriptions are as follows:

Application Programming Interface (API)

Collective term for the various interfaces that allow you to write application programs using an operating system, system, application, library, and so on through programming

Fail-over

Backup mode in which a secondary system takes over and operates when the primary system stops due to a failure or the end of its operating time

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

Standard communication protocol used to send email on the internet

Domain Name System (DNS)

NAVER Cloud Platform service that helps identify and find domain names on the internet as actually accessible addresses

Sender Policy Framework Record (SPF Record)

Record that specifies a security policy. It is mainly used to prevent spam by specifying information such as the IP addresses of servers that send email, which prevents email address spoofing, and it sets text information for the domain in a TXT (domain description) record. Mainly used for the same purpose as SPF records

Bounce

Case in which an email delivery attempt fails and the email is returned

Cloud Outbound Mailer

NAVER Cloud Platform service that lets you easily send bulk notification, informational, and marketing emails through the UI or by connecting it to your running services

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)

Email authentication method that uses a digital signature to verify on the receiving server that a received email has not been forged or altered

Note

For additional terms, see Glossary on the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.