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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mailbox 
  n  1:  a  private  box  for  delivery  of  mail  [syn:  {letter  box}] 
  2:  public  box  for  deposit  of  mail  [syn:  {postbox},  {letter  box}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  mailbox 
 
  1.    A  file  belonging  to  a  particular  user  on  a 
  particular  computer  in  which  recieved  {electronic  mail} 
  messages  are  stored  ready  for  the  user  to  read  them  A 
  mailbox  may  be  just  an  {electronic  mail  address}  to  which 
  messages  are  sent  and  may  not  actually  correspond  to  a  file  if 
  the  messages  are  processed  automatically,  e.g.  a  {mail  server} 
  or  {mailing  list}. 
 
  2.    A  destination  for  interprocess  messages  in  a 
  {message  passing}  system.  A  mailbox  is  a  {message}  queue, 
  usually  stored  in  the  memory  of  the  processor  on  which  the 
  receiving  process  is  running.  {Primitives}  are  provided  for 
  sending  a  message  to  a  named  mailbox  and  for  reading  messages 
  from  a  mailbox. 
 
  (1994-10-20)




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