# Mailbox (disambiguation)

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**Mailbox** may refer to:

## Mail

- [Letter box](/source/Letter_box) (also known as a letter plate, letter hole, deed or mail slot), a private receptacle for *incoming* mail
- [Post box](/source/Post_box) (also known as a drop box), a public receptacle for *outgoing* mail - [Pillar box](/source/Pillar_box), a freestanding post box in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
- [Pigeon-hole messagebox](/source/Pigeon-hole_messagebox), also known as a cubbyhole, pigeon-hole or pidge

## Computing

- [Email box](/source/Email_box), a destination for electronic messages
- [Mailbox (application)](/source/Mailbox_(application)), email management software for mobile devices
- [Mbox](/source/Mbox), file formats
- [Message queue](/source/Message_queue), a means of interprocess communication in software engineering

## Other uses

- [Mailbox Birmingham](/source/Mailbox_Birmingham), a retail complex in Birmingham, England
- [*The Mailbox* (film)](/source/The_Mailbox_(film)), a short movie by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Mailbox, a square-centric method of addressing a game board in game playing computer automatons; see [Board representation (computer chess)](/source/Board_representation_(computer_chess))

## See also

- [Mailbox baseball](/source/Mailbox_baseball)
- [Mail (disambiguation)](/source/Mail_(disambiguation))
- [Box (disambiguation)](/source/Box_(disambiguation))

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