Mailbox

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• An area in memory or on a storage device where email is placed. In email systems, each user has a private mailbox. When the user receives email, the mail system automatically puts it in the mailbox. The mail system allows you to scan mail that is in your mailbox, copy it to a file, delete it, print it, or forward it to another user. The mailbox format used by Microsoft Exchange email systems is PST, while Lotus Notes uses NSF files.^{[1] [2]}

• A container for electronic mail data (messages and attachments) that contains one or more mail messages. There are multi-mail containers like PST, NSF, Netscape mail containers, etc. and single mail containers like EML and MSG.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^  Fios, E-Discovery Glossary, http://discoveryresources.org/01_electronic_discovery_glossary.html.
2. ^  RSI, Glossary.
3. ^  Ibis Consulting, Glossary.