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mailstore

mailstore

English

Noun

mailstore (plural mailstores)

  1. (computing) A structure in a file system that stores electronic mail.
    • 2000, Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet, Managing IMAP (page 6)
      Not too long ago, most mailstores consisted of a single text file per user containing the user's messages concatenated together within that file.