The words used across Nixt Office and its documentation, from account and organisation to tenant, deployment, licence and grace period.
Accounts and organisations
Term
Meaning
Account
Your sign-in on nixtoffice.com: your name, your email address, and your password or passkeys. See Your account.
Organisation (on nixtoffice.com)
A company, team or school with an account on nixtoffice.com. Nixt DNA Server deployments and licences belong to it. See Organisations.
Role (on nixtoffice.com)
What a person may do in an organisation: owner, administrator, billing or member. See Roles.
Passkey
A way to sign in with your fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of a password. See Passkeys.
Nixt DNA Server
Term
Meaning
Deployment
One place Nixt DNA Server runs for an organisation, and its type: on your own servers, in your own cloud, or with us. See Nixt DNA Server deployments.
Licence
A pair of files, licence.json and licence.json.sig, that say who a server is licensed to and what it allows. See Licences.
Grace period
The 10 days a server keeps working in full after its licence runs out, before it moves to the monthly message allowance. See When a licence runs out.
Mailbox (for licensing)
A person who signs in. Aliases, groups and shared mailboxes do not count.
Tenant
The server’s word for an organisation it hosts. Each tenant has its own domains, accounts and settings, and its mail is encrypted under its own key. See Domains and accounts.
Node
One running copy of Nixt DNA Server. Several nodes can share one store. See Running the server.
Role (on Nixt DNA Server)
A part of the server, such as mx (receiving mail) or store (serving mailboxes). A node runs every role unless told otherwise. See How the server is built: roles.
Operator
Whoever runs the server itself: its machines, its upgrades and its backups. An organisation’s administrators manage their own people and domains; the operator manages the installation.
Admin console
The web application administrators and the operator use to manage the server. See The admin console.
Store
Where the server keeps its records: SQLite on one machine, or PostgreSQL for several.
Key-encryption key
The key that protects every tenant’s own key. Keep a copy apart from your backups. See The key file.
Mail
Term
Meaning
DKIM, SPF and DMARC
DNS records and checks that prove mail really comes from your domain. See Email authentication.
MX record
The DNS record that tells other servers where to deliver mail for your domain. See DNS records.
IMAP, JMAP and SMTP
The protocols mail apps use to read mail (IMAP and JMAP) and to send it (SMTP). See Connecting mail apps.