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Glossary

The words Mailnitio uses, from Autopilot and shadow mode to allowance and saved view, each in one plain line.

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The terms you will see in Mailnitio, in alphabetical order.

A to C

  • Acknowledgement: a short automatic reply confirming you received a customer's email, sent when a new ticket opens in a live category.
  • Agent: a person on your support team who works tickets. In Mailnitio, "agent" always means a person.
  • Allowance: the number of Autopilot conversations included in your plan each month, shared by your whole team.
  • Autopilot: Mailnitio Autopilot, the automation that reads each email, picks a category and team, and acknowledges or answers where you allow it.
  • Autopilot conversation: one customer email thread that Autopilot reads and answers or routes; follow-ups in the thread do not count again.
  • Autopilot suggestion: Autopilot's decision or draft answer shown to your team, marked in purple with a wand icon.
  • Canned response: a saved reply your team can insert into the composer.
  • Category: what an email is about, such as "Complaints"; each category routes to one team.
  • Confidence: how sure Autopilot is about a category, from 0 to 100%.

D to M

  • Default category: where an email goes when Autopilot is unsure or fails; each mailbox can have its own.
  • Escalation: an email that mentions an escalation term or that Autopilot flags as a regulator, legal or media matter; it goes to the escalation team as urgent.
  • Guardrail check: the check every Autopilot draft answer must pass before it can be suggested or sent.
  • Inbox log: the list of every email Mailnitio has read, with its category, confidence and decision trail.
  • Knowledge base: the approved answers Autopilot uses to reply.
  • Live mode: Mailnitio creates tickets and replies to customers as you have set.
  • Mailbox: a support address Mailnitio reads, such as support@.

N to R

  • Needs review: the queue where a person checks Autopilot decisions that were not confident, escalated or unclear.
  • Paused: a mailbox mode in which emails are not processed until you resume.
  • Pending: a ticket waiting on the customer's reply.
  • Rerouted: Autopilot sent the email to a different team from the one its mailbox normally uses.
  • Round robin: a team setting that assigns new tickets to members in turn.

S to Z

  • Saved view: a named set of ticket filters, sort, columns and density that you can pin and share.
  • Shadow mode: Autopilot decides and records what it would do, but creates no tickets and sends nothing to customers.
  • SLA: the target time for the first response to a ticket, set by priority.
  • Team: a group of people who handle the tickets of one or more categories.
  • Threshold: a confidence level that decides whether an email routes on its own, is flagged for review or goes to the default category.
  • Ticket: one customer conversation in Helpdesk, numbered like MN-1042.

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