Mailbox
1. <messaging> A file belonging to a particular user on a particular computer in which received
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. <programming> 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.
