A Mailbox is an object that facilitates message passing between djinns The basic Mailbox can be used to send typed messages to specific mailboxes and to receive typed messages from arbitrary Mailboxes Many provided objects increase the functionality of the basic Mailbox (two examples are filters and sets) Furthermore, through inheritance, more specialized mailboxes can be constructed (the primarily examples being Inboxes and Outboxes) These classes offer greater functionality, such as message queuing and target destination binding Each Mailbox has a unique name on the Internet, called a Place This allows for messages to be routed to specific mailboxes anywhere on the Internet
{i} public box for depositing outgoing letters, postbox; private box for receiving incoming mail; file in which electronic mail is stored (Computers)
A user's database on the post office The Mailbox contains the user's setup information, personal groups, and rules It also contains references (pointers) to the user's messages in the message database
A character string (address) which identifies a user to whom mail is to be sent Mailbox normally consists of the host and user specifications The standard mailbox naming convention is defined to be "user@domain" Additionally, the "container" in which mail is stored
The location where e-mail is delivered The administrator sets up a mailbox for each user If a set of personal folders is designated as the e-mail delivery location, e-mail is routed from the mailbox to this location
The file or directory where your incoming e-mail messages are stored on the computer of your Internet Service Provider
A box that holds incoming mail; a box for electronic mail is a file where mail messages are stored until the addressee opens and reads them
A destination where mails are sent to It is more general than your in-box that contains the mails delivered to you A mailbox can also be a program (which prints the mail to a printer) or other things
An electronic message storage place for data A customer can retrieve messages from his/her own mailbox and can send messages to other trading partners' mailboxes