| Subject | English | Icelandic |
| comp., MS | bounce message | óskilaboð (A non-delivery notification that is sent to an e-mail sender when a message cannot be delivered to the intended recipient either temporarily or permanently) |
| comp., MS | confirmation message | staðfestingarboð (An alert that is shown to prompt the user to agree to the action being taken) |
| comp., MS | e-mail message | tölvupóstskeyti (A message that is sent over a communications network such as a local area network or the Internet) |
| comp., MS | incoming message | skeyti á innleið (A message that has been sent across one or more messaging systems. It may have been sent only to you or to many other recipients. Incoming messages are placed in a receive folder designated to hold messages of a particular class. You can set up a different receive folder for each message class that you handle or use one folder for all of the classes) |
| comp., MS | instant message | spjallskilaboð (A message sent in real time through a network to a private chat area) |
| comp., MS | instant message | senda spjallskilaboð (To send an instant message) |
| comp., MS | Intelligent Message Filter | Snjölll skilaboðasía (The underlying technology of the Exchange Server content filter that evaluates inbound mail and assesses the probability that an inbound e-mail message is either a legitimate message or spam) |
| comp., MS | Internet Message Access Protocol | IMAP (A method computers use to send and receive e-mail messages. It allows you to access e-mail without downloading it to your computer) |
| comp., MS | message bar | skilaboðastika (A user-interface element that contains information about actions that you recently performed in a list. You can double click on the message bar to get more information about a specific action that you performed) |
| comp., MS | message class | skeytaklasi (Used by Microsoft Exchange to identify, locate, and open a form) |
| comp., MS | message envelope | boðaumslag (" The information contained in an e-mail message that is required to send and deliver a message between messaging servers by using SMTP protocol commands. The message envelope contains the sender e-mail address and the recipient e-mail address information. Recipients never see the message envelope, because it is not part of the message content, and it is discarded when the message reaches its destination. The X.400 messaging standard equivalent to the message envelope is called the "P1 header." The message envelope is often referred to as the "P1 header.") |
| comp., MS | message header | haus skeytis (A hidden section of an e-mail message. From the time a message is first created, information about it is added to the message header, including technical details, such as who created the message and the software used to compose it) |
| comp., MS | message item | póstatriði (An implementation of the Internet Message Format defined by RFC2822. A message item is stored in the Exchange store) |
| comp., MS | message list | skeytalisti (The middle part of the main Outlook window that displays the contents of the selected folder) |
| comp., MS | message transfer envelope | flutningsumslag (A MAPI message that holds the delivery information for a message) |
| comp., MS | message transfer system | samskiptakerfi (The X.400 term for a messaging system, which is a product that enables electronic communication over a network) |
| comp., MS | message window | skilaboðagluggi (A window which displays a particular message for the user) |
| comp., MS | notification message | tilkynning (An e-mail message that is sent by a notification activity) |
| comp., MS | offline instant message | spjallskilaboð utan nets (An instant message that is transmitted while the sender or recipient is offline) |
| comp., MS | poison-message queue | eiturboðabiðröð (A subqueue of the application queue where poison messages get moved to be later processed by a poison-message handling application) |
| comp., MS | quota message | kvótaskeyti (An e-mail message that is automatically sent by Microsoft Exchange to the owners of a mailbox or a public folder when a size limit, which is called a storage quota, for the mailbox or public folder has been exceeded or is at risk of being exceeded) |
| comp., MS | text message | textaskilaboð (A short alphanumeric message that is sent between mobile phones or devices using the SMS protocol) |
| comp., MS | video message | myndbandsskeyti (A short video sent as an email message to someone in the contact list) |
| comp., MS | voice message | talhólfsskilaboð (An electronic message with a primary content of digitized audio) |
| comp., MS | Windows Messaging | Windows-skilaboð (An app that facilitates SMS and instant messaging) |