Mailbox may refer to:

Mail

  • Letter box (also known as a letter plate, letter hole, deed or mail slot), a private receptacle for incoming mail
  • Post box (also known as a drop box), a public receptacle for outgoing mail
  • Pillar box, a freestanding post box in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
  • Pigeon-hole messagebox, also known as a cubbyhole, pigeon-hole or pidge

Computing

  • Email box, a destination for electronic messages
  • Mailbox (application), email management software for mobile devices
  • Mbox, file formats
  • Message queue, a means of interprocess communication in software engineering

Other uses

  • Mailbox Birmingham, a retail complex in Birmingham, England
  • 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)

See also

  • Mailbox baseball
  • Mail (disambiguation)
  • Box (disambiguation)