Mailbox
the mailbox protocol is used to read messages from a local folder berkeley mailbox.
... it consists of nsmailboxservice, nsmailboxurl, and nsmailboxprotocol.
... the mailbox protocol is also used to regenerate a summary file, in conjunction with nsmsgmailboxparser ...

nsIMsgHeaderParser
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) to create an instance, use: var msgheaderparser = components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger/headerparser;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsimsgheaderparser); method overview string extractheaderaddressmailboxes(in string line); void extractheaderaddressname(in string line, out string name); void extractheaderaddressnames(in string line, out string usernames); astring makefulladdress(in astring aname, in astring aaddress); string makefulladdressstring(in string aname, in string aaddress); wstring makefulladdresswstring(in wstring name, in wstring addr); obs...
... wstring reformatunquotedaddresses(in wstring line); void removeduplicateaddresses(in string addrs, in string other_addrs, in prbool removealiasestome, out string newaddress); string unquotephraseoraddr(in string line, in boolean preserveintegrity); wstring unquotephraseoraddrwstring(in wstring line, in boolean preserveintegrity); methods extractheaderaddressmailboxes() given a string which contains a list of header addresses, returns a comma-separated list of just the 'mailbox' portions.
... if any of the addresses doesn't have a mailbox, then the user name is used instead.
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nsIDBFolderInfo
obsolete since gecko 1.8 void getmailboxname(in nsstring boxname); native code only!
...obsolete since gecko 1.8 void setmailboxname(in nsstring newboxname); native code only!
...g highwater nsmsgkey imaphierarchyseparator wchar imaptotalpendingmessages long imapuidvalidity long imapunreadpendingmessages long knownartsset string locale astring mailboxname astring nummessages long numunreadmessages long sortorder nsmsgviewsortordervalue sorttype nsmsgviewsorttypevalue version unsigned long viewflags nsmsgviewflagstypevalue viewtype n...
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Mail and RDF
+-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#child --> | mailbox://alecf@pop.mywork.com | +-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#isserver --> "true" | +-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#child --> | mailbox://alecf@pop.mywork.com/inbox | +-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#totalmessages --> "2" | +-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#isserver --> "false" | +-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#messagechild --> ...
... | | mailbox_message://alecf@pop.mywork.com/inbox#1 | +-- http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#messagechild --> | mailbox_message://alecf@pop.mywork.com/inbox#2 | etc...
...the query's target is the resource named mailbox://alecf@pop.myisp.com/inbox and the property node is named http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#totalmessages.
... this is basically what happens, behind the scenes: var target = rdf.getresource("mailbox://alecf@pop.myisp.com/inbox"); var property = rdf.getresource("http://home.netscape.com/nc-rdf#totalmessages"); var resultnode = datasource.gettarget(target, property, true); in the folder datasource's gettarget(), target would be queryinterfaced to a nsimsgfolder.

The Implementation of the Application Object Model - Archive of obsolete content
in the xul, you could use a syntax like <toolbar localdata="mailbox:blah"/> which would specify a uri that pointed to a specific mailbox node.
...suppose that a bookmarks folder contains a mailbox folder, a composer page template, and a bookmark.

IMAP - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
unlike pop3, imap allows multiple simultaneous connections to one mailbox.
... clients accessing a mailbox can receive information about state changes made from other clients.

Shell global objects
getsharedarraybuffer() retrieve the sharedarraybuffer object from the cross-worker mailbox.
... setsharedarraybuffer() install the sharedarraybuffer object in the cross-worker mailbox.

Index
42 mailbox mailnews the mailbox protocol is used to read messages from a local folder berkeley mailbox.
... it consists of nsmailboxservice, nsmailboxurl, and nsmailboxprotocol.

MailNews Protocols
imap pop3 nntp smtp mailbox rss these are all implemented in c++, except for rss.
...the message search code also has protocol-specific code to handle searching on the server, or local mailbox.

Introduction - Archive of obsolete content
in mozilla, such datasources include a user's mailbox, their bookmarks and search results.

nsIGlobalHistory2
embedders should consider filtering out these schemes and others, for example mailbox:, for the main nsiuri and the referrer.

nsIMsgFolder
for local folders, it creates the berkeley mailbox if missing.

nsIMsgIncomingServer
limitofflinemessagesize boolean localpath nsilocalfile localstoretype acstring the schema for the local mail store, such as "mailbox", "imap", or "news" used to construct uris.

Mail client architecture overview
whenever multiple messages are stored in one file, the berkeley mailbox format is used.

Lifetime of a WebRTC session - Web APIs
this is like trying to mail a package to your friend michelle by labeling it “michelle” and dropping it in a mailbox when you don't know her address.